Jews in Budapest were arrested yesterday for allegedly demonstrating in the streets against the anti-Jewish laws in Hungary, it was reported today by the Transocean, a Nazi news agency.
A sharp attack is made in the Budapest newspaper “Magyarsag” against the journalist Hugo Csergoe, described as the “Jewish chorus leader,” for a speech in which he expressed the hope that the Jews of Hungary will regain their lost rights. “We shall continue,” Csergoc is quoted to have said, “in the footsteps of Vilmos Vazsonyi (late Minister of Justice, the only Hungarian Jew ever to have held Cabinet rank), and we declare that the restoration of lost rights and liberties is not just a Jewish demand, but an eternal ideal of humanism; and that is why we shall reconquer them. Hungary has lived for two centuries in the liberal spirit and the transitory period we are now living through cannot deflect us from our proper course.”
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