Reliable Prague advices said today that Reich Protector Baron von Neurath had refused to sign the Prague Government’s projected anti-Jewish law as insufficiently stringent.
Baron von Neurath was said to be opposed to clauses in the law which provided for the following: (1) Setting up of a class of "honorary Aryans;" (2) violation of the Rassenschande (racial pollution) principle by permitting mixed marriages with the proviso that the "Aryan" partner would be considered a Jew;(3) admission of 50 Jewish lawyers to the Prague bar;(4) incomplete "Aryanization" of Jewish business; (5) an "excessive" percentage of Jews in some professions.
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