President Roosevelt, at his press conference today stated that he has ordered the abrogation of all anti-Jewish regulations in North Africa and the liberation of all the political prisoners of the Vichy regime.
“I have requested the liberation of all persons in Northern Africa who had been imprisoned because they opposed the efforts of the Nazis to dominate the world,”President Roosevelt said, “and I have asked for the abrogation of all laws and decrees inspired by Nazi governments or Nazi ideologists.”
President Roosevelt’s announcement came on the heels of a broadcast by the American-controlled Algiers radio reporting that Gen, Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces, had received a Jewish delegation at his headquarters in North Africa and assured them that all anti-Jewish laws imposed by the Vichy regime would be annuled. The delegation was composed of representatives of Jewish organizations in Algiers.
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