“An unheard of misuse of state funds,” is how the Vienna correspondent of the “Berliner Tageblatt” characterizes the action of the rector of the University of Vienna in giving the German Students’ Group the sole right to represent the student body and thus discriminating against the Jewish students, because the German organization admits no one, not even Austrian citizens, unless they can prove their German origin.
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