Hungary Capitulates to Student Demand for Quota on Jews

The nation-wide strike of Hungarian nationalist students to compel the government to accede to their demads for a program of anti-Jewish restrictions based on the German Nazi model was ended today following the government’s capitulation to the students on a number of is sues in the twenty-point program sought by the striking students.

Among the student demands had been insistence on a srict numerus clausus or quota limiting the number of Jewish students allowed to study in the universities; restriction of Jewish students from other countries studying in Hungarian institutions; segregation of Jewish students on “ghetto benches” in the classrooms, and special aids to Hungarian professional graduates in securing placement in positions. The extent of the government’s capitulations to these demands could not be ascertained.

The strike, which had been in progress for several weeks, had been accompanied by marked violence as the nationalist students, said by Premier Goemboes and the Minister of Education, Professor Balint Homan, to have been inspired by foreign agitators, sought to prevent other students from registering for the next semester and attacked Jewish students.

The government’s capitulation to the striking students also included, it became known, the rescinding of the order expelling the anti-Semitic student leaders at the University of Debrecin, which had followed particulary violent assautls on Jewish students at that university and conflicts between the authorities and the students.

Leaders of the student corporations, while expressing gratifcation at the government’s surrender ot them on some demands, declared they world continue their fight for enforcement of all the demands in their program.