A general strike was proclaimed in all the universities by the anti-Semitic student body. The university faculty has urged the government to protect all peaceful students and to close the universities for a year, if the new measures will prove unsuccessful.
Angelescu, in an interview with newspaper representatives, declared that the closing of the universities seems to be unavoidable.
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