Antisemitic Student Troubles Start in Czecho-slovakia: Foreign Jewish Students Refused Admission to

Antisemitic student troubles broke out again to-day at the University of Bratislava (Pressburg). Jewish students at the Medical Faculty found the doors to the Anatomical Institute barred by Nationalist students, who demanded that they should produce their papers. Jewish students from Poland were refused admission, but Jewish students native in Czecho-Slovakia were allowed into the Institute.

The Jewish students have lodged a complaint with the Dean.

The Nationalist papers are supporting the anti-Jewish student movement insofar as it is directed against alien Jewish students. The papers announce that a big movement to secure their exclusion from the University will be started next week.

Anti-Jewish student disturbances on a considerable scale occurred at Bratislava and other Czecho-Slovakian Universities two years ago, in November 1929.

Thousands of Czech Nationalist students demonstrated in the streets outside Prague University, in spite of police prohibitions, demanding the enforcement of a 5 per cent. numerus clausus against foreign students, and more stringent admission examinations designed to cut down the number of foreigners admitted to the University. Police, mounted and on foot, dispersed the demonstration, several students being injured, and dozens put under arrest.

German students at the German University in Prague also attacked Jewish students demanding that they should be subjected to a numerus clausus, and the University had to be closed for several days.

At Bratislava the attacks were most serious in the Faculties of Law and Medicine, and Jewish students were also attacked by their colleaguse in the Students’ Home, while they were lying asleep.

Last year, at the Conference of Ruthenian students in Czecho-Slovakia held in December 1930 in the province of Carpatho-Russia, the representative of the Czecho-Slovakian Students’ Association, a student named Vacbalen, spoke of the Jews in his address as parasites and exploiters against whom the student youth must wage war.