The Austrian Government today overrode the traditional autonomy of Austrian universities and ordered police to enter the University of Vienna grounds when a gang of Nazi students attacked a celebration of Catholic students at which Chancellor Dollfuss was delivering an address. University buildings hitherto had been free from police intervention except when the rectors of the institutions gave permission.
Three hundred policemen penetrated the university and occupied posts in the lecture-halls in order to prevent further rioting.
This drastic action had long been advocated in connection with anti-Jewish excesses perpetrated by Austrian student followers of Adolf Hitler. It is hoped that it will make further Jewish disturbances at the university impossible because, once the precedent of police intervention is established, police action will follow whenever peace is threatened.
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