American and Jewish students left the Physiologic Institute of the University of Vienna today as a protest against the Nazis who insisted that seats for Americans and Jewish students be assigned only in the galleries of the lecture halls.
The Nazis declared that the only guarantee of peace lies in seating the Americans and the Jews well apart from the Germans in this and other faculties.
There were no disturbances.
tomorrow, which was closed, following anti-Semitic excesses, the university authorities issued a warning that police will be marched into the University at the slightest indication of disturbances.
Federal Judge Julian W. Mack of Chicago, noted Jurist and Jewish communal leader, has been in repeated conference with the American Minister, G. B. Stockton, with regard to the safety of American students at the University, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns.
Minister Stockton, it is reiterated, is determined to utilize all the power of his office to assure the physical safety of the American students.
The American students have decided to establish a united interconfessional American group to defend their common interests.
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