The University of Lwow has been closed indefinitely, it was officially announced today, as a result of continued attacks by members of the anti-Semitic Endeks against Jewish and democratic students. Police searches among Endek students at the university, where two Jewish youths were fatally stabbed last Fall, revealed large quantities of arms, ammunition and explosives. The police were attacked by Endek students while searching their headquarters on the campus.
In the Senate last night, former Premier Kazimierz Bartel renewed his attack on hooliganism in the Polish universities, but declared he did not deny the existence of a Jewish problem in Poland. Prof. Bartel said he regarded as abnormal the Jewish “disproportion” in commerce, industry, artisanship and the liberal professions and declared solution of the problem, with the help of “progressive action” by the Jewish population, would be welcomed by the whole nation. “We must, however,” he added, “protest against barbaric methods which will never solve the Jewish problem and which outrage the conscience of the Polish people.”
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