The recent antisemitic outbreaks at the Vienna High Schools were strongly condemned to-day in the Austrian Parliament.
The Social Democratic Deputy Leuthner, claimed that the names of 1,200 students attending the University had been struck out from the list of electors to the Student Committees, because they are Jews, or suspected of being Jews, or Konfessionslos, and that, he said, explains how the German race-antisemites have succeeded in obtaining their big victory in the student elections.
Dr. Aigner, a Catholic priest, Who is a Deputy of the Christian Socialist Party, followed this up by declaring that the Christian Socialist emphatically repudiate the slogan of the Hitlerist Students: “Perish Judea”, because it is contrary to the teachings of the Catholic faith. because it is contrary to the teachings of the Catholic faith. Besides, he said, such slogans indicate moral degeneration and suggest a low standard of culture at the Universities.
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