The International Chess Union today rejected the application of the German Chess Union for membership, giving as the reason the latter’s ban on Jewish chess players.
The union came to no decision on the invitation of the German organization to hold its next congress in Berlin, leaving that for the individual countries comprising the union to decide.
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