A decree depriving twelve Jews, formerly members of the French Senate and Chamber of Deputies, of their parliamentary mandates was announced today over the Vichy radio.
The twelve former officials who were mentioned in the decree are: Leon Blum; Georges Mandel; Abraham Shramek, formerly a Minister of the Interior; Leon Meyer, former Minister of Trade and a leader of the Radical-Socialist party and the ex-mayor of Le Harve; Solomon Grumbach, prominent French Socialist and formerly permanent delegate from France at the League of Nations; Jules Moch; Charles Lucy; Georges Oulmot, Robert Lazuric; Pierre Bloch and Louis Alphand.
Simultaneously instructions were issued today in Vichy to border authorities ordering them to tighten measures against Jews trying to cross from the occupied into the unoccupied zone. The border officials are authorized to place under “administrative internment” those attempting to cross. Already some Jews have been fined and sent to prison for attempting to move across the border.
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