The government has closed until Monday all universities here following a new outbreak of disturbances provoked by the anti-Semitic wave aimed at Jewish undergraduates.
In spite of the silk-gloved treatment authorities are according student rioters and the concessions made to their demands for the institution of clauses delimiting freedom of registration by prospective Jewish students, the universities of Budapest, Debrecen and Szegeg, are the scenes of a continuous round of factional riots. Jewish students were hustled out of their classrooms. A non-Jewish professor, Dr. Kisz, was subjected to a beating by anti-Semitic sympathizers for his refusal to cooperate with the agitators. He was mobbed in the midst of a lecture.
It is believed that there is a rift between Christian national students and Nazi-inspired nationalists who are pressing their demands for the clauses which would bind Jewish students and curtail their registration. Extremists are demanding their ousting from the institutions of higher learning. The nationalists are particularly hostile toward Jewish students who formerly were matriculated in German universities. A strike is hanging fire awaiting the outcome of the demand for the clauses.
Catholic students have indicated their intention of accepting the partial concessions made by Premier Julius Goemboes.
There is little doubt that student opposition is being fomented by the fact that the government has been easy in punishing the violators of the peace. To date forty student leaders who are chiefly responsible for the disturbances, have been fined three pengoes apiece. (A pengoe is equivalent to seventeen and a half cents in American money.)
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