A dispatch from the Paris correspondent of the Madrid newspaper, Arriba, a copy of which arrived here today, admits that French public opinion is totally opposed to the anti-Semitic measures introduced by the Vichy regime. This is the first time that such a report has been allowed to appear in a Spanish newspaper.
The correspondent writes that the “anti-Jewish fever” is losing ground in France, where it has been overcome by popular reaction against anti-Semitic laws. “As soon as the anti-Jewish laws are abolished, not a trace of reacialism will remain in France,” he adds.
A copy of the French underground student newspaper, “L’Universitie Libre,” which was smuggled out of France to Fighting French quarters here, reveals that Dr. Valentin Feldman, a young Jewish professor, has been executed by the Germans for participating in sabotaging an electric power station near Dieppe. Although tortured for six months, Feldman refused to reveal the names of the other members of the underground who had assisted him, the paper states. Feldman, who is now buried at Ivry near Paris, was an outstanding pupil at the Sorbonne. He was of Russian origin.
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