The fight for Jewish rights in Hungary was resumed during today’s parliamentary debate with the speakers using language even stronger than that employed in the discussion in the last two days over the exclusion of Jews from membership in the Hungarian Order of Heroes.
Deputy Fabian openly accused the government of practicing an unofficial numerus clausus in providing Jewish ex-service men with civilian employment. He supported this charge by citing figures to prove that only ten percent of the Jewish war veterans had received civilian jobs.
This charge aroused Julius Goemboes, minister of war, who had favored the barring of Jews from the Order of Heroes, to interrupt Deputy Fabian by shouting “mention specific cases.” The debate then developed into a heated argument exceeding by far the stormy scene enacted during the discussion on the question of Jewish exclusion from the Order of Heroes.
This matter was again raised today by the Jewish deputies, one of them inquiring from his seat why one whose mother or wife is a Jewess may become a cabinet minister but is not permitted to belong to the Order of Heroes.
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