The economic position of Hungarian Jewish youth is extremely tragic, Baron Berthold Hatvany, vice-president of the Hungarian Pro-Palestine League, asserted at a meeting of Hungarian Zionists.
Declaring that although Hungarian legislation was free of anti-Semitism and the government friendly to the Jews, the Baron said that economic conditions created by the war had drastically cut down opportunities.
“The breakdown of the middle class and the dismemberment of Hungary are directly responsible for the drastic cut in opportuni-
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