Anti-Jewish excesses at the Universities will not recur, the Minister of Education, M. Jedrzejewitz, declares in a statement which he has just sent to the Club of Jewish Deputies in reply to the interpellation which it addressed to the Government in November (given in the J.T.A. Bulletin of November 9th.), complaining of the anti-Jewish University disturbances and demanding Government action to put a stop to them.
The responsible Minister, the University authorities and the school authorities emphatically condemn the deplorable anti-Jewish excesses, the Minister continues. Out of 425 University students and secondary school pupils who were arrested in connection with the excesses, he proceeds, a hundred have been turned over to the Public Prosecutor to be dealt with. There are several Jews among these, he adds. Other students who were arrested have been dealt with by disciplinary measures, the Minister says, and a large number of University students and secondary school pupils have been expelled.
An investigation has been ordered to enquire into the charges made against the police that some of them had failed to do their duty during the excesses, the Minister announces.
I declare, he concludes, that such deplorable and impermissible excesses will not recur, and if as a result of a new campaign of incitement there should be a fresh outbreak, it will be suppressed ruthlessly and with all the forces at our command.
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