Xavier Vallat, newly-appointed Commissar-General for Jewish Affairs, declared at a press conference in Paris that denaturalized Jews probably would be “expelled” from France, it was learned here today.
Meanwhile, the Journal Official said that 59 Jews were among a group of 265 person deprived of their French citizenship last week. Seventeen Jews who previously had been denaturalized were reinstated, the official organ said. Among those denaturalized are two members of the German branch of the Goldsmid-Rothschild family.
Vallat, who went to Paris shortly after his appointment as Commissioner last week, was quoted as saying that, “legions of Jews from Central Europe and also the Orient came to our country to its great misfortune.”
He said he intended to propose new measures to “fill up the gaps in the Jewish Statute.”
Other questions which were being studied, he said, were the following first, the position of the old Franco-Jewish families, mostly from Alsace, who “seem assimilable,” and the question of the Jews of Provence, among whom there are some agriculturists; second, the position of Jewish ex-soldiers; third, the position of recent immigrants; fourth, liquidation of Jewish property.
It was learned here that Vallat, although an anti-Semite, is not sufficiently pro-German to please the Nazis and the latter assertedly have demanded his dismissal and the appointment of a “more convenient” person in his place.
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