This is a concealed form of a numerus clausus not against Jews, but against Polish students, the Polish Nationalist student leaders alleged speaking at a demonstration of Polish Nationalist students held in the courtyard of the Warsaw University, to protest against the intention of the Government to increase the University fees.
Over 2,000 students, mostly Nationalists, were present at the meeting, although a number of other students belonging to the Government camp and to the Left Parties had managed to make their way in, despite a strong guard of Nationalist students who had been placed on guard at the entrance armed with heavy cudgels to examine the papers and photographs of all seeking admission, to make sure that they were students and members of the Nationalist student body.
The Rector of the University, Professor Michalowitch, had prohibited the meeting, and had issued an appeal to the students not to hold it in defiance of his prohibition, but his appeal was ignored.
Jews can afford to pay higher fees, the student leaders said, or else they can afford to go abroad to study because they are rich, but the Polish students are poor and cannot pay higher fees and they cannot afford to go abroad to study. what the Government measure amounts to, therefore, they said, is a numerus clausus against Polish students. Several students of the Left Parties asked to be allowed to speak, but this was refused.
A resolution was adopted by the meeting protesting against any increase of fees on the ground that it would be a concealed numerus clausus not against Jews, but against Poles.
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