Xavier Vallat, first Commissar of Jewish Affairs of the Vichy Government, and the man who drew up the first anti-Jewish legislation in France, has been arrested, it is reported from Paris today.
The report says that Vallat faces loss of franchise, restrictions on his place of residence and expulsion from any professional group to which he may belong. Similar punishment awaits other members of the Jewish commissariat.
Another report from Paris says that the French League for Human Rights, which battled for Jewish rights all over Europe, has reappeared openly after four years of underground existence. A new president, to replace Victor Basch who was assassinated near Lyon last year, has not yet been chosen.
The Paris radio today said that Charles Maurras, anti-Semitic editor of the Royalist newspaper L’Action Francaise, who was a close collaborator of the Vichy Government, has been arrested in Lyon.
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