Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss today received Dr. Desider Friedmann, president of the Vienna Jewish community, in an hour-long audience in which the actual problems of the Jewish situation in Austria were exhaustively discussed.
An official government communique issued immediately after the conference said: “Chancellor Dollfuss received President Desider Friedmann of the Vienna Jewish community and in the course of a long conversation informed him about the cultural parts of the new constitution.”
However, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned that Dr. Friedmann also touched on questions affecting the entire Austro-Jewish situation; emphasizing particularly the violent anti-Semitic propaganda, which is causing great anxiety among the Jews.
RIGHTS SECURED BY TREATY
Well-informed Jewish circles are confident that the new and anxiously awaited constitution, which is to place Austria on the basis of a corporative Fascist state, cannot restrict Jewish rights, since these are secured by article sixty-two of the treaty Saint German between Austria and the Allied Powers, which was signed on Sept 10, 1919. Jewish leaders insist, however, that the equality guaranteed by the treaty must not remain a theoretical declaration of equality for all religions, but must be anchored to practical life in present day Austria.
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