Count Kuno Klebelsberg, Hungarian Minister of Education, whose recent criticisms of numerus clausus in the universities almost created a cabinet crisis, declared here today at a press reception in his honor that socio-economic and national religious reasons had evoked numerus clausus but that the first reason was no longer valid since conditions had returned to normal and as for the second he declared that he had never been inclined to national religious conceptions despite attacks from the radicals.
Count Klebelsberg said too that he had always striven to get the universities to accept students in accordance with their abilities and not their religions or nationalities. He believes that an improvement in that regard may be expected.
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