After yesterday’s fighting at Vienna University, in which Nazi students drove out the Jewish students from the University Building, pursuing them along the Ringstrasse to the Liebenberg monument, and beating and injuring them, as well as knocking down several old people who were walking in the street, everything is quiet to-day at the University.
Two Zionist students, Hans Calder and Hans Slomniker, one of whom had his nose broken yesterday and the other an eye knocked out, are badly injured. A number of Jewish students sustained minor injuries.
Jewish opinion here is divided as to whether to accept or reject the new law regulating the question of student rights on the principle of nationalities.
The Liberal Press here is unanimous, however, in condemning the new law. There is no justification, they say, for a nationalities division among the students. Does Cardinal Piffl (the Primate of the Catholic Church in Austria), several of the papers ask, agree that Christian teaching allows of such a division by which baptised Jews who accept Christian sacraments are counted as belonging to the Jewish student nationality?
The “Sonn-und-Montagszeitung” publishes a long list of professors at Vienna University who are of Jewish or semi-Jewish origin, to point out how impossible it is to make the race-principle the basis of the student rights.
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