The official conscription decree excluding Jews from the German army is widely commented on today in the English press, which points out that "the Jews, for all their persecution by the Nazis, are still a formidable body and still present a thorny problem to Herr Hitler’s government."
An explanation of why the Jews have been barred from the German army is given in an editorial in the Irish Times, which finds that the Jewish problem in Germany is be-
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