Austrian anti-Semitism has begun to discard its “rubber-soled” policy for Prussian methods, according to a wireless despatch in today’s New York Times from its Vienna correspondent, G.E.R. Gedye.
The story confirms reports by the J.T.A. about recent anti-Semitic pronouncements by clerical leaders, and declares that “under a dictatorship, where any open agitation contrary to the government’s policy is impossible, it is natural that Jews view these developments gravely.”
Citing attacks on the Jews by Leopold Kunschak, clerical trade unionist, Rev. George Bichlmair, leading Jesuit priest, and Bishop Alois Hudal, rector of Anima, Gedye declares that “to the support of the two attacks by a clerical workers’ leader and the church itself came the State in the person of the Vice Mayor of Vienna, Josef Kresse.”
Gedye states: “What has impelled the government and church to permit this attack at the present juncture is not yet clear. An explanation is perhaps to be found in the same appreciation of the Fatherland Front’s lack of popular appeal that, Chancellor Schuschnigg told Czech officials, was the government’s motive in permitting monarchist propaganda.
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