Describing French Jewry as a “hostile minority, “Xavier Vallat, newly-appointed Commissar-General for Jewish Affairs, expressed the conviction in a recent interview that complete elimination of Jews from French public life would be achieved it was learned here today.
“The Jewish problem already grave before the war, is no less grave today,” he said, “We must decide whether an ethnical minority which cannot be easily assimilated and which has done nothing to assimilate itself shall continue to be master of the country and govern it according to principles which however well-suited to its mentality are contrary to ours.
“The realization of this fundamental antagonism is sufficient proof of the necessity of eliminating this hostile minority from national affairs. Thanks to measures which will be taken this aim will be attained and at the same time the French race will be purified.”
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