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Austria Likely to Enact New Curb on Jews

January 24, 1935
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A new project which, if it becomes law, would impose further restrictions upon the activity of Jews has been brought forward by the Advocates Chamber of Tyrol and submitted to the Government, which now has it under consideration.

Under the proposal, law practice for advocates would be fixed from one to two years. Only those would be admitted to the second court year who had been declared trustworthy in and out of service by the President of the Supreme Court.

In practice, every lawyer would be eligible to admission to the first year, but for the second year he would be at the mercy of the President of the Supreme Court.

In this connection it should be pointed out that since 1920, when the Christian Socialists formed a government, no Jew has been appointed a judge in Austria.

The attitude of the government appears favorable. Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, the Chancellor, is himself from the Tyrol.

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