NATIONALIST PRESSURE IS FORCING EVEN DEMOCRATIC RECTORS OF POLISH UNIVERSITIES TO INSTITUTE “GHETTO” BENCHES FOR JEWISH STUDENTS.
RECTOR KULCZYNSKI, WHO RECENTLY OFFERED A COMPROMISE SOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN JEWISH AND NATIONALIST STUDENTS, DECLARED TODAY THAT HE WAS DETERMINED TO MAKE SEPARATE BENCHES FOR BOTH GROUPS OBLIGATORY. UNDER THE RECTOR’S SOLUTION, JEWS AND NATIONALISTS WOULD BE SEATED AT OPPOSITE SIDES OF CLASSROOMS, WITH OTHERS MAKING THEIR CHOICE BETWEEN SITTING WITH EITHER OF IN A NEUTRAL “CORRIDOR.”
THE RECTOR OF WILNO UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCED “GHETTO” BENCHES WILL BE INSTITUTED ON NOV.26.
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