The South African Parliament today tabled the motion of Nationalist party leader Dr. D.F. Malan for banning Jewish immigration and started debate on the second reading of the bill fixing an “immigration quota for foreigners of non-British origin,” the Havas News Agency reported.
Dr. Malan, who is a former cabinet minister, introduced his motion last night after a violent anti-Semitic speech during which he charged the Jewish minority with seizing control of trade and commerce through out South Africa.
At today’s session Minister of the Interior Stuttaford opened the debate on the immigration bill by asking that the Government be granted full power for determining quota restrictions.
He insisted that there was no anti-Semitic feeling among the members of the Government, which merely desires full freedom of action to restrict immigration to South Africa to the best elements of foreign countries.
Persons considered undesirable by their own Government are not acceptable to South Africa, Stuttaford stressed, Havas reported.
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