Non-Jewish students have been powerful enough in Europe to cause revolutions and dictatorships, while Jewish students have been permitted no voice in politics, and practically no organization, said Dr. Walter Kotsching, head of the International Student Service at Geneva, who spoke on “Students in Politics in Europe” at Barnard College yesterday.
Illustrating the unrelenting conflict of those laboring under a “mistaken biological concept against Jewish students and professors at the University of Vienna, the speaker described a police station which has been established in that institution for the protection of Jews.
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