Shouts of derision against Premier M. Julius Goemboes, classifying him as “the protector of the Jewish race”, marked the release of thirty-nine anti-Semitic students from jail by police here today. They were charged with violence and assault on Jewish pedestrians.
Cautious lest the acts of violence be repeated, police were planning to bring further action against the agitators on the charge that their anti-Semitic activities also constituted mutiny against the national government.
The Minister of Education published an announcement that the government intends both to satisfy the justified demands of the anti-Jewish students and to insure freedom to pursue their studies to the students who are the object of the outbursts here. There was confidence that the authorities would succeed in quieting the revolt, and crushing the instigators from the outside. Obviously the source of inspiration for the agitators was to be sought by the government, which pledged determined action against the instigators.
The anti-Semitic contingents, however, did not find the arm of the law sufficiently intimidating to curb their passion for violence and destruction. They have countered the police action by threatening to declare a boycott against the Jews and against Gentile protagonists and defenders of the Jews.
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