ing to which a specially picked audience had been invited, it was officially announced today.
The Chancellor qualified his assertion, however, by stating that the position of the Catholic church was due to the fact that the “overwhelming majority of the population belonged to that faith.”
Dr. Schuschnigg also declared that his government acknowledged the rights of all religious groups to equal treatment. He thanked the Austrian Jews for the stand taken in condemning the “exaggerations of international public opinion.”
There has been no abatement of the conditions affecting the Jews in Austria and no anti-Jewish measures have been withdrawn as a result of Finance Minister Buresch’s promises to London bankers, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency ascertained from most reliable Jewish circles.
Despite assurances given by the Austrian government and repeated protests from Jewish parents in Vienna, the ghetto school system inaugurated in September of 1934 is still in force, Neue Welt, Austrian Jewish newspaper edited by Robert Stricker, revealed today.
At the same time the paper disclosed that the Austrian Jewish People’s Union not only protested to the government against the creation of the ghetto school system, but demanded the creation of a public Jewish educational system.
In submitting the demand to the Austrian government, the organization pointed out that “a school ghetto has been set up violating the constitutional equality of Austrian Jewish citizens and failing to satisfy national and religious Jewish requirements.”
The Jewish People’s Union also stressed the fact that the teachers in ghetto schools have as their aim “a German Christian education.” The appointment of Jewish teachers in the school was demanded by the organization.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
