The Hungarian parliament was the scene of an interesting debate today on whether the Jews have particularly sympathies for Liberalism or Socialism. Karl Wolff, parliamentary leader of the Christian National Economic party, blamed the Jews for supporting Socialism. He said he would rather that they had supported the Christian National policies.
He expressed surprise that “even the rich Jews sympathize with Socialism while the Jewish youth in many countries follow revolutionary movements. The best medium for fighting anti-Semitism would be a united front of Jews and Christians against Marxism.”
The Social-Democratic deputies denied that the growth of Socialism was due to Jewish sympathies but said it was rather the result of the Christian National party’s failure. Thus far the Jewish members of parliament have not taken any part in the discussion.
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