Minister of Information Vaclav Kopecky, speaking before a Socialist meeting here, protested against the recent charge by the official Social Democratic newspaper that he was an anti-Samite, but repeated his previous attacks against the Sub-Carpathian Jews.
Kopecky claimed that the Carpathian Jews had entered the Czech Army only to-wards the end of the war, spoke Hungarian or German and had fled from the Carpathian area–which was ceded to the Soviet Union last year–because they feaned “bolshevism.” He claimed that only Czechs or Slovaks living in the Cappathian region could apply for Czechoslovak citizenship, not persons who had registered in the 1930 census as Jews.
The Information Minister criticized the Jewish Community Council for protesting to the government against the nationalization of a factory owned by a Jewish industrialist, Emil Bear, asserting that by so doing it was defending a “capitalist.”
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