Apparently fearing post-war reprisals, the Slovakian newspaper, “Slovak,” organ of the anti-Semitic Hlinka Party, publishes an article calling for a revision in the procedure of “aryanization” of Jewish enterprises. The article points out that such a revision is necessary because “crimes have been committed” during the confiscation of about 10,000 Jewish establishments in the country.
A copy of the issue of “Slovak” in which the article appears, reaching here today, also carries the news that the head of the Central Economic Office, which supervises the “aryanization” of Jewish business firms, has been dismissed because he arbitrarily appointed “liquidators” who were never called to account.
Obviously disturbed over the fate that may befall them when the Allied armies invade central Europe, the Hlinka Party and the Hlinka Guard, which is the storm troop section of the party, are engaged in an altercation in the party press as to which of them is chiefly responsible for the “aryanization” of Jewish property. Each group is attempting to place the onus on the other.
Gardista, organ of the Hlinka Guard, a copy of which reached here today, claims that the Guard suggested the expropriation of only 16 enterprises, while the party suggested 1,541. The “Slovak,” on the other hand, claims that the party did not ask for the “aryanization” of the 1,541 businesses in question, but only testified as to the trustworthiness of those applying for the enterprises.
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