The Hungarian parliament has agreed today to appoint an inter-party committee to investigate the problem of anti-Semitism and re-commend measures to improve the situation. The investigation was proposed by Lajoz Zentivanyi, a Unitarian minister and a deputy of the middle-class Democratic party.
It is learned that a Franciscan friar responsible for anti-Semitic sermons delivered at the largest church in Buda has been transferred to the provinces.
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