The anti-Semitic press in Belgium today published an attack against the government for bestowing the title of Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold upon Camille Gutt, former Minister of Finance.
The newspapers urge that members of the Order return their decorations in protest against a Jew receiving the same honor.
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