(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Central Committee of the Universal Union of Jewish Youth has sent a memorandum to Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, requesting the League to intervene in Hungary, Poland and Roumania where the Numerus Clausus limits the admission of Jews to the centers of higher education.
It is pointed out that in Hungary, Article 3 of the Law of September 24, 1920, stipulates that the number of students admitted shall be proportionate to the percentage of the population represented by their race and nationality. It is claimed that in 1923 a regulation was adopted in violation of the Constitution of the Republic which lays down, according to the Treaty of 1919 between Poland and the chief allied powers, that all shall be equal before the law. In Roumania the anti-Semitic excesses prevent Jewish students from attending the universities, the memorandum declares.
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