A fine of 1,000 shillings or 14 days in prison was levied on the editor of the Vienna Allgemeine Zeitung in the local court today for calling Franz Hueber, minister of the interior, a “racial anti-Semite.” M. Shreiber, counsel for the Allgemeine Zeitung, was fined 100 shillings and severely reprimanded for seeking to introduce into the record newspaper articles purporting to show that Hueber is an anti-Semite. Both the paper and Schreiber have appealed the verdict to a higher court.
Shreiber asked the government’s press chief whether it was permissible for the minister of justice to agitate against the Jewish community which is recognized by the constitution. This is an elementary rule which Hueber should have known from his student days, Shreiber maintained. Thereupon Shreiber was reprimanded and the court declined to consider his proof of Hueber’s anti-Semitism, claiming that it had no bearing on the charge against the Allgemeine Zeitung.
During the recent pre-election campaign, Hueber stumped the Austrian countryside to deliver anti-Semitic speeches.
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