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Hungarian Government Will Postpone Numerus Clausus Reform As Riots Continue in Colleges

November 25, 1927
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League is Asked to Postpone Consideration of Jewish Complaint; Authorities Desired Riots, Opposition Charges; Discussion of Anti-Semitic Riots Taboo in Hungarian Parliament (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Rumors to the effect that the Hungarian government will withdraw the bill it has introduced into parliament to modify the numerus clausus law limiting the number of Jewish students to five percent of the total number admitted to the universities and colleges were afloat today in Hungary’s capital as the bloody riots against the Jewish students continued. Many of the Jewish students were injured in the attacks made on them in the classrooms. Several had their noses broken.

The newspaper “Magyar Szag” learns that as a result of the riots the government will withdraw the bill until March. In the meantime, it was stated, the Hungarian government has requested the Secretariat of the League of Nations to postpone consideration by the Council of the League of Nations at its March session of the memorandum submitted by Lucien Wolf in behalf of the Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Jewish Deputies and the Anglo-Jewish Association of London. In this memorandum.

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