Applications of 12,000 Hungarian Jews, seeking to obtain citizenship, have been on file in the Ministry of the Interior for a long time, but the government has taken no action to dispose of them one way or another. This was the complaint of Deputy Temeswari, a member of the government party, in the parliamentary administrative committee.
It is time, he demanded, for the government to take some action on the matter and end the situation of uncertainty which causes much anxiety to the applicants.
At the same meeting, the Jewish deputy Paul Sandor asked why the government refuses the application of Jews desiring to Magyarize their names. Minister of the Interior Schitovsky replied that his department has no anti-Jewish bias, but he thought that Hungarian names were not a right but a privilege.
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