A debate in the Austrian parliament was ended abruptly Tuesday after the chamber echoed to the first anti-Semitic slurs heard there since the end of World War II, it was reported here today. The incident occurred during a debate on the building of a United Nations Center in Vienna. As the names of the firms commissioned for the job were read, members of the right-wing opposition Austrian Peoples Party shouted, “Jews, Jews, all of them Jews.” Leopold Gratz, leader of the Socialist Party secretariat demanded an end to the debate which threatened to become openly anti-Semitic and the Speaker of the House complied.
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