The Government’s Students’ Rights Bill, restoring the medieval division of the Universities into student “nations”, one of them being a Jewish “nation”, which is opposed by the Democratic and Socialist Deputies and by the Union of Austrian Jews on the ground that it would endanger the principle of Jewish emancipation, was again presented to Parliament to-day. (The bill was introduced in February, but the first reading was postponed till the end of April).
The Social Democratic Party is trying to get the bill shelved, and since all Parties, both of the Right and the Left, have introduced motions for the dissolution of Parliament, they hope that the dissolution will come before ### the bill is enacted, and though the Hitlerists expect to repeat their recent electoral successes in the Federal Parliament elections, the Left Parties are confident that the new Parliament will, nevertheless, have a Republican majority, which would kill the measure.
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