L’Echo d’Oran, “La tâche de M. Xavier Vallat”, 1 avril 1941
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This article is about the appointment of Xavier Vallat to the Commissariat aux Questions Juives. This document explains that the best way “to avoid scenes of disorder” (showcases of five large Israelite traders broken in Marseille) because of anti-Semitism, is to apply the status of the Jews. “It is not a question of persecuting men. It is a question of considering them as strangers and of treating them, as such, to fix their rights and their duties […]. It is, in short , to defend the French community against an abusive invasion […] “. The document ensures that Mr. Vallat “will ensure the strict application of the law and that the administration, the justice, medicine, the press, the radio and the cinema, all professions prohibited to Jews will be fully restored to the French only. “