REPORTS OF IMPENDING ANTI-JEWISH RESTRICTIONS IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION APPEARED TO BE CONFIRMED TODAY BY AN ARTICLE BY THE SOCIAL WELFARE MINISTER, DR. JOSEPH RESCH, IN THE NEUE FREIE PRESSE, LEADING FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC NEWSPAPER. HE STATES THAT DOCTORATE DEGREES, BEGINNING OCT. 1, 1938, WILL BE ISSUED ONLY TO THOSE HAVING A YEAR’S HOSPITAL TRAINING. SINCE JEWISH DOCTORS ARE NOT ADMITTED TO THE PUBLIC HOSPITALS, THE EFFECT OF THE MEASURE WILL BE TO BAR JEWS FROM THE PROFESSION.
ADDITIONAL DIFFICULTIES FOR JEWS ARE ANTICIPATED UNDER A PROVISION THAT DOCTORS MUST RECEIVE THEIR PERMITS TO PRACTICE FROM THE DISTRICT AUTHORITIES.
AT THE SAME TIME, THE APPOINTMENT OF TWO JEWISH SCIENTISTS AS UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS BY CHANCELLOR KURT SCHUSCHNIGG WAS ANNOUNCED. THEY ARE DR. ALFRED SAXL, LECTURER ON ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY, AND DR. ROBERT WILLHEIM, LECTURER ON MEDICAL CHEMISTRY, WHO, INCIDENTALLY, HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE AUSTRIAN ZIONIST ORGANIZATION FOR A LONG TIME.
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