CITIZENS’ RIGHTS IN POLAND
DEPRIVATION MEASURE (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copy righfl LONDON, 25th March. The Warsaw correspondent of "The Times” states that the Diet has passed measures empowering the Minister of the Interior to deprive citizens of all rights if they have been abroad for five years. The Bill is described as being necessary, as there is no other legislation to deprive of their citizenship thousands of Poles abroad who have adopted a passive and indifferent attitude to the country, or who wanted to remain abroad for political or criminal reasons or to evade military service. Jews are not specifically mentioned, but no doubt the first to suffer will be thousands of Polish Jews in Austria,! Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Germany, and Rumania. All those abroad who have I taken an “active and positive attitude” ‘ towards Poland will continue to re- j ceive the protection of the'state. j
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 28 March 1938, Page 5
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