The whole of to-day’s sitting of Parliament was given up to the debate on the Students’ Rights Bill, the Minister of Education, Dr. Czermak, the ex-Vice-Premier, Dr. Schmitz, and the former Heimwehr Minister, Dr. Hueber, who distinguished himself when in office by his antisemitic attacks, spoke for the bill, and Deputies Leuthner and Gloeckel, both Social Democrats, opposed it, arguing that its passage would mean handing over the universities to the Nazis and depriving Jewish students of their rights.
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