The Catholic Journal, Neue Ordnung, publishes the draft of a bill for the regulation of the Jewish question in Austria, which has been prepared by the late Dr. Seipel, leader of the Christian Socialist Party and former Prime Minister.
State Councillor Kunschak, editor of Neue Ordnung, who had collaborated with Dr. Seipel in the drawing up of the bill, declared that it is time to put an end to the present ostrich-like policy of the Austrian Government and to solve the Jewish question in accordance with reason and law. Dr. Seipel’s bill, Herr Kunschak goes on, is worthy of consideration.
The bill provides that the Jews should be regarded a national minority. The Jews would be allowed to have their own national schools and would be permitted to attend the schools subsidized by the Government only strictly in accordance with their numerical proportion in the country. The position of the Jews in Austria generally would also be regulated by this principle of the numerus clausus.
Commenting on this bill, the official Neuigkeits-Weltblatt points out that the Chancellor Schuschnigg has often expressed the opinion that the time has arrived for the establishment of a regime of electoral autonomy for the national minorities in Austria.
The paper further remarks that in the Seipel law the racial question plays no part. It is an open question, however, it goes on, whether, if the time for a solution of the Jewish question can be considered as having arrived, the racial problem can altogether be excluded from consideration.
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