Dr. Johann Vaszonyi, son of the one-time Minister of Justice, the late Dr. Wilhelm Vaszonyi, who died in 1926 from the effects of an attack made on him by antisemites in the streets of Budapest and who was one of the outstanding champions of the Jewish cause in Hungary, has just entered public life, by being elected for the first time as a member of the Budapest City Council. Several of his father’s old colleagues in the fight against the antisemitism which swept Hungary with the coming of the Christian regime, like Dr. Paul Sandor, Dr. Bela Fabian, Dr. Brody, Dr. Eugen Gal, and Dr. Marzell Hajdu, are among the new members of the Budapest City Council, which so far has 17 Jewish members belonging to the middle class parties. It is possible that several more Jews will find places on the Council, because some Councillors have been elected several times, and it is expected that among those who will replace them on their duplicate representation will be some Jews.
There are several Jews also among the Social Democrats who have been returned to the new Council and both the Government Party and the Opposition in the new Council this time include Jews among their representatives.
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