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The New Statesman and Nation of London gives the following impression of its correspondent on how Czechoslovakia treats its national minorities:

Her national minorities are better treated than most national minorities elsewhere, and much better than national majorities under dictatorships. Each national minority has its own schools, with the teaching and text-books in its own tongue. I visited, in the Eastern parts of the Republic, not only Czech and Slovak schools, but Ruthenian schools, Magyar schools, Jewish schools, Rumanian schools, even, at Uzhorod, a Gipsy school. At this last I asked the teacher: “What do these children do, when they leave school?” “Most of them take up music,” he replied. They join the Gipsy hands one hears in many restaurants and cafes. The members of national minorities have not only their own schools, but substantial equality of civic rights—votes, newspapers of their own, trade unions, cooperative societies, a share, as peasants, in the distributed estates.

LUDWIG LORE SURVEYS THE AUSTRIAN SITUATION

Ludwig Lore, quoting in the New York Post the News Letter published in the Bulletin of May 31 on the Jewish situation in Austria, comments as follows:

In theory Austrian Fascism recognizes no discrimination against the Jew. In practice the Jewish population is acutely conscious of a marked lack of equality. The Viennese administration, which is controlled by the Schuschnigg faction, leads the way in anti-Semitic measures.

Jewish physicians in the employ of the city, Jewish engineers, teachers, clerks, technicians, etc., have been dismissed. Jewish school children are being forced to attend ghetto schools and many find it impossible to become university students. Jews everywhere are exposed to anti-Semitic excesses of every description without the assurance of protection by the authorities.

When Jewish citizens report such attacks there are desultory investigations. But nothing ever comes of them. The police officer suggests to the complainant that Jews for their own sake would do well to take such trifles without a fuss, that the Government had its hands full with Heimwehr and Nazi troubles without bothering with the Jews.

It was high time that the fiction of “equality for the Jew” in Fascist Austria was exploded. Captain von Friedmann’s courageous speech painted conditions in Austria as they are. Nothing, of course, will come of it.

The Austrian Jew will have to resign himself to the fact that supporting Fascism in its beginnings does not buy immunity from its evils.

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