(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The accomplishments of Louis D. Brandeis, American Jewish jurist, member of the United States Supreme Court, as well as the career of the Marquis of Reading in the British government were cited in a Polish Senate Commission as arguments for the abolition of the legal disabilities against the Jews dating back to Czarist times.
The argument was made by Senator Ringel at a meeting of the Budget Commission of the Senate when the budget of the Ministry of Justice was considered. The Senator pointed out that the Ministry has remained passive in the task intrusted to it to carry out the nullification of the Czaristic laws limiting the constitutional rights of the Jewish population.
In Galicia, there remain in force the Austrian language limitations of 1846. Jewish attorneys cannot be admitted to state office in Galicia, notwithstanding the fact that there are many well known jurists among them, he stated.
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