Seeking to keep closer tabs on alien activities, the Uruguayan Government has introduced bills in Parliament requiring the registration of all aliens over 15 and forbidding the publication of newspapers and other printed matter in ” foreign and exotic languages which are difficult to control.”
The first bill, introduced in the Chamber, provides that all aliens failing to register or guilty of giving false information to the authorities will be deported. Every alien who intends to remain in Uruguay more than 60 days must register, giving his address, business, nationality, his reasons for residing in this country, and his last address prior to his arrival here.
The bill on the use of foreign languages in the publication field was introduced in the Senate by Domingo R. Bordaberry, Government party member. It provides that no newspaper be published in a language not taught in local high schools, unless Spanish translations of all material also are provided.
If the bill should become law, the Jewish colony would be hardest hit, since it is the only one that publishes daily, weekly and other periodicals in a language not officially recognized.
The bill is very similar to a resolution introduced in the Chamber in 1936 by the former ministers of interior and education. The resolution was not passed because of intercession of the World Jewish Congress and the representations made to the Government by Jewish leaders.
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