The Hungarian Premier, General Julius Goemboes, today personally assumed the task of restoring order in the Hungarian universities, which have been the scene of serious riots directed against the Jewish students by anti-Semitic student associations.
Premier Goemboes ordered that the universities remain closed until the beginning of next week in view of the repeated disturbances at the universities, which resulted in a number of Jewish students being beaten, street attacks on Jews, necessitating the energetic intervention of the police and attacks on Jewish communal buildings and on newspapers friendly to the Jews.
A meeting of the nationalist anti-Semitic students today resolved to reject the government reply and insist on the carrying out of all the anti-Semitic demands made by the students, particularly the demand for a strict numerus clausus against Jewish students. If this demand is not met, the student corporations threaten to carry out a strike in all Hungarian universities.
In a last attempt to find a peaceful solution for the problem, Premier Goemboes instructed former Minister Julius Kornis, professor of philosophy at the University of Budapest, to negotiate with the anti-Semite students. If these negotiations break down, the police will receive the widest powers for the enforcement of order.
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