The Jews of Vienna spent a quiet Sabbath, as a result of the eve-of-the-Sabbath prohibition of the “All Quiet” talkie, the presentation of which had turned the Jewish quarter for the last few days into an armed camp, with huge forces of police out in the streets to beat back the attempts of the Hitlerists to break into the quarter and smash up the Jewish houses and shops as a protest against the “Jewish insult to Germany’s war dead” which they alleged the film to be.
The usual Sabbath atmosphere prevailed, although there were strong police patrols in the streets to protect the Jews going to and from synagogue.
The Hitlerists are now said to be organising an attack upon the famous Burg Theatre as a protest against the production there of a play about the ###, whose author, Herr Sassman, is not a Jew. They object to the play on the ground that it is a glorification of an international Jewish family”. The Socialist Mayor of Vienna, Herr Seitz, has brought up the matter in Parliament in the form of an interpellation to the Government asking whether it intends to retreat again before the threatened violence of the Hitlerists, by prohibiting the play as it has prohibited the “All Quiet” film.
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