Radical and thorough-going legislation against the Jews of Austria is urged today by Storm Over Austria, Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg’s own paper and the official organ of the Catholic storm troop organization which he heads.
The paper demands that the government differentiate between religious and non-religious types of Jews. The first class should be granted religious rights, while the second group must be treated as “unwanted elements” and shipped to Palestine through world-wide cooperation, Storm Over Austria proposes.
It also became known today that Austrian authorities had granted permission for two huge anti-Semitic mass meetings in the last two days, despite the fact that all political meetings are strictly forbidden in Austria.
The mass meetings, which were entirely devoted to denunciation of the Jews and proposals for depriving them of citizenship rights and public and professsional posts, were held under the auspices of the German Austrian Protective Anti-Semitic Union, headed by Jerza Beck.
This action by Austrian authorities is held to be highly significant, since the prohibition against political mass meetings has been rigidly enforced with all the power of the Austrian state.
Jewish leaders here expressed the opinion that permission for the meetings was granted because influential circles in Austria deem it necessary to stress anti-Semitism as a means of showing the Jews that Chancellor Schuschnigg’s declaration in Geneva about equality of treatment for all citizens must not be taken seriously.
The Geneva declaration made by the Austrian Chancellor stressed
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