Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-18
France Sets Up Strict
Anti-Jewish Rules
For First Time
Concentration Comps
Included in PIons of
Vichy Government
By the Associated Press.


Viehy Government
| By the Associated Press.
VICHY, France, Oct. 18.-France
followed the lead of most of Europe
today, establishing strict anti-Jewish
measures for the first time in her
| history.
Persons with three Jewish grand
parents or with two Jewish grand
parents and married to Jew were
| excluded from all public administra-
tons, from the press, the motion
picture industry and radio, from
holding on officers rank in any
branch of the armed forces, from
working in the law courts in any
other capacity than as a lawyer and
from the colonial administration.
Unofficial estimates placed the
number of Jewish citizens of France
and the colonies at slightly more
than 100000. Estimates of the num-
Der of foreign Jews in France we're
slightly higher.
The only exceptions made to the
rulings of the Petain government
were for Jews who were decorated
either in the wars of 1914 or 1899
or for Jews who rendered diStin-
guished services in literary, artistic
or scientific work
Concentration Camps Planned.
The government also promulgated
decree giving local projects the
right to confine any foreign Jew to
concentration camps to be set up in
each department or to fix the places
of residence. similar to the Central
European ghettoS.
More severe measures already have
been taken in Paris by German
authorities. The activities of Jews
| there have been strictly limited,
even in commerce, and they are not
permitted to pass from the unoc-
| cupied to the occupied zone
The new French measures forbid
Jews to head any company subsi-
died by or holding public funds.
The only other concession to the
Jews was permission to work in lib
eral professions. But recent gov
ernmental measures aimed at newly
naturaliZed Jews forbade any one
working in the medical or legal pro-
LESSONS if their parents were not
French citizens
The statutes give Jews who fall in
the newly established categories two
months to leave their positions. Re-
tirement pensions and compensation
according to the length of service
were granted.
A commission set up under the
orders Of the Minister of the In
terror was charged with the or
ganization and administration of
prison camps for foreign Jews.
Action against the Jews was fore
Swallowed by a government state
ment of policy last night, which
blamed them for contributing lin
no small degree" to the French de-
feat by Germany.
The statement, while promising to
respect the persons and property of
Jews. described the measures as in
dispensable to security" and not as
"a mere question of vengeance"
Earlier in the month when
the Vichy government first was
reported to have drawn up anti
Jewish legislation, the German
radio broadcast that about 700,-
900 Jews would be affected and
that 100000 would "be sent back
to their countries of origin')
Greater Happiness Proven
Native Algerian Jews were stripped
of the rights of French citizenship
on October 8 and given the same
status as native Moslems.
Last nights statement of policy
made it clear that the lot of per-
sons Of Jewish birth would be hap
pier in the unoccupied zone OF
France than in the regions held by
the German Army, where stringent
regulations have been placed in eff
feet.
In the occupied zone around Paris
all Jews are required to register
with police by the end of this month
and thereafter all Jewish enter
prises must make themselves known
by displaying large signs in both
French and German. These regu-
lations, defining Jews as any per-
son with more than two Jewish
grandparents. also are in effect in
the German administered territories
| of Luxembourg and AlSace-L Orraine
In the latter region Jews report
eddy were forbidden to own farms
and had been warned to leave the
cities. Jews who fled from Ger
man. occupied French territory have
been forbidden to return.