A Vichy radio broadcast, discussing the issuance yesterday of the first list of 500 naturalized Frenchmen deprived of citizenship, characterized those on the list as persons who had brought over their customs from the ghettos of Central Europe or had already changed their nationality three or four times or owed their naturalization to “special favor.”
The announcer asserted that the racial temperament of these people was so different from that of the French that they could not be integrated. He said the list included names of Jews and “political agitators” from Central Europe whose morality and activities proved they did not deserve the name of “Frenchmen.”
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