In 1923 the Government of the day was on the verge of enacting a numerus clausus law against Jewish students, and it was only on the intervention of M. Poincare, then French Prime Minister, that the bill was rejected on the third reading, Deputy Sommerstein, the spokesman of the Club of Jewish Deputies, reminded the Parliamentary Education Commission when it discussed the Education Ministry’s Budget to-day, raising the question in connection with the numerus clausus resolution now before the House, introduced by the National Democratic Party.
Deputy Sommerstein urged that the State should recognise the matriculation certificates of the Hebrew High Schools-in Poland, because otherwise, he said, the very existence of the schools is imperilled, since their students, no matter how well qualified, will be unable to derive any advantage from their diplomas.
Deputy Sommerstein expressed the satisfaction of the Club of Jewish Deputies with the statement of the Government that it will not permit any repetition of the anti-Jewish outbreaks of last November.
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