(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The pronouncements by Prof. Ludwig Mehely, the new dean of the University of Budapest, of his racial theory is commented upon by the Neue Freie Presse. The newspaper states that Prof. Mehely advocates the introduction in Hungary of a numerus chausus against the intermarriage of Jews and non-Jews.
In his address yesterday Professor Mehely declared that he had invented a device for discerning the identity of race through blood tests. He urged the Hungarian government to introduce a bill into parliament for the protection of the party of the Hungarian race, arguing that intermarriage between members of various races has a bad effect on the progeny.
The New York Evening World, commenting on Prof. Mehely’s address, stated:
“In an address before a scientific body in Budapest, Prof. Ludwig Mehely, a noted student of racial biology, submitted two startling propositions. One of these was that the intermarriage of people of different races makes for the degeneracy of their progeny; the other that Government should not permit unlimited repro##
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