The Government today made public another list of persons deprived of their French nationality, a majority of them being Jews of Polish, Russian, German, Turkish and Rumanian origin.
Among those denationalized were engineers, furriers, company directors, tailors, traveling salesmen, barbers, musicians and pedlars.
A Paris court was reported today to have rejected the claim of a Jewish traveling salesman for severance pay due him when he was dismissed under the Nazi anti-Jewish ordinance of Oct. 18, 1940. The court ruled that Jewish employes who were dismissed under the ordinance were not entitled to any compensation.
The Paris newspaper Pilori editorially criticizes Xavier Vallat, Vichy Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, for allegedly lagging behind Paris in undertaking anti-Semitic action. The newspaper takes Vichy to task for discriminating between “good and bad Jews, religious and irreligious Jews, honorable and dishonorable Jews” and emphasizes that Jews in the occupied zone are no longer permitted professional contact with the public.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
