The Government organ Venkov announced today that the principle of proportional representation in the nation’s economic life will be introduced in a bill on the Jews which is now being prepared. The measure will provide for elimination of Jewish employes from banks and insurance companies and a considerable reduction in the number of Jewish doctors and lawyers, the newspaper said.
Municipal voting rights to which aliens have been entitled after a decade’s residences, constituting a perquisite of naturalization, is no longer being granted by the new Praha municipality to foreign Jews. Ten Jewish applications of a total of 150 were rejected by the city council.
The Czech University here has barred Jews from its medical faculty for two semesters, it has been made known here. The action was revealed in a letter by the Council of Professors to the Hospital Doctors’ Association, which declared the Council regarded solution of the Jewish problem as an urgent necessity. As a result, Jews will no longer have the opportunity to study medicine in Czechoslovakia since they are now completely eliminated from the German University.
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