Three Nazi students went to Berlin yesterday by aeroplane to present a request to Minister of Education Kaehler to give a leave of absence to Professor Ernst Cohn, who has been the victim of persistent attack and villification by the Nazis, because he is a Jew.
The students are insistent that Professor Cohn must leave the institution if peace and order are to be restored.
It is held unlikely that Minister of Education Kaehler will accede to the request of the Nazis. It is recalled that the Minister of Education intervened in Professor Cohn’s behalf when the University Senate, joined by Rector Brockelman, declared that Cohn’s lectures could no longer be tolerated because he was lacking in political discretion. The Minister called a conference attended by the Rector of Breslau University and a representative of the University Senate, following which a communique was issued stating that no reprimand of Cohn had been intended. Subsequently Professor Cohn was reinstated by the University Senate, but his lectures have evoked disturbances on the part of the Nazis, who insist upon his removal.
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