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Pp. 165-203 discuss measures taken to restrict Jewish immigration to Denmark from the end of the 19th century. After the Baloth Affair, in which Russian Jews were arrested for plotting to blow up a prison, there were press demands for increased control of the immigrants. In 1913, regulations for the entry and control of Poles and Jews were tightened up, and from 1914 on, the government issued secret directives for expulsion of aliens at the end of their legal period of residence. Nationalist and conservative newspapers took up antisemitic positions during the First World War. From 1917 on, new regulations demanding that all Russian immigrants hold a valid passport virtually ended legal immigration, though illegal immigration continued. Denmark's illiberal immigration policy resulted from xenophobia, unemployment, and the tense international situation.