The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned from unusually well informed quarters here that Dr. Friedmann in his conversation with Chancellor Dollfuss also dealt with demands recently formulated by Austrian anti-Semites for a thorough revision of post-war citizenship granted East European Jews.
It is understood here that Chancellor dollfuss denied that there was any possibility of such revision. Regret was expressed here that the Chancellor’s assurance was not incorporated into the official statement on the audience.
Recently the official and semiofficial newspapers of the present regime in Austria carried stories of a Heimwehr project to deprive Jewish citizens naturalized after 1918 of all political rights and prohibiting them from entering professional or public life. The fact that the censor permitted the report, coupled with the fact that no denial was forthcoming from official circles, alarmed the Jews and convinced them of the truth of the report.
Austrian Jewry had been perturbed also by the virulent anti-Semitic campaign, still in full swing throughout the country. The entire government and pro-government press is filled with projects for limiting Jewish rights in many directions. The Austrian anti-Semites seem to be particularly determined to oust the Jews from Professional and public life.
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