An order prohibiting the sale of Czech newspapers to Jews in the Protectorate was issued this week in Prague, according to information reaching Czechoslovak circles here today. The shortage of newsprint was given as the excuse.
Another report reaching Czechoslovak circles here today stated that all Jews in the Czech city of Mlada Boleslav were prohibited from visiting exhibitions, public reading rooms and similar institutions.
Czech circles in London today pointed out that the ben on sale of newspapers to Jews is actually another Nazi scheme to drive a wedge between Czechs and Jews in the Protectorate. Recently the Nazis have resumed their propaganda in the Protectorate blaming the “Jewish underground activities” for the execution of Czechs there. The pro-Nazi Prague newspaper Ceske Slocoin an article says that “Jews are responsible for all Czech tears.” The increased Nazi effort to alienate the sympathies which the Czech population feels for the Jews has failed, however, to bring any results, the Czech leaders in London were informed.
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