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Show nun I pjiuhbn-. Bishop Explains Move to Re strict Semitic Students in Universities BUDAPEST, Oct, io. i t 'oi respond-once respond-once of the Associated Preaa) A presentation pres-entation of the Jewish question in Hungary that h.:j attracted wide republication re-publication ar.d (jonim.nl wu: made by ihe bishop of Stuhjwelasonburg, Ultaker i'rohaxka, In the course of a debate In the national assembly this week. The bishop introduced and spoke to a bill Intended lo restrict the number num-ber of Jewish sludenta In the uniyerr sity. Ihe clinlCB and the colleges of agriculture, it v.-as meant, ha said, to guarantee a living to the Bunga-ilan Bunga-ilan middle classes and at the Same time 10 afford a basis for a predetermined predeter-mined selection of students This selection se-lection was to have patriotism for a basl!-. The measure was not a plot against the liberty of edm ;iti..n "Since 1867." he continued. ' Hungarian Hun-garian political economy and Hungarian Hunga-rian trade have experienced a great eNpansion and for this wo have to thank the Jews. By dint of their intelligence, in-telligence, iheir diligence and tenacity of life the Jews have pushed back, as it were, the new Hungarian generation. genera-tion. "Anti-semltism as such does not exist in Hungary. Our anti-semltism Is such as bids us look upon the Jew-as Jew-as an essential portion of the nation but lo prevent him sr. lining a preponderance prepon-derance over us We are not faced bv the problem of ontl -semltism but by that of racial self-defense. Our Christianity Chris-tianity la being made to feel that It is being flushed bock at every step. This process deserves the nainc of de-( de-( "hr lot i An lx.it ion Our attitude of de fense must not be looked upon by the Jews as an act of hatred. Merely for the sake of liberalism wr must not suffer that half the lawyers and the majority of medical men In the country coun-try be Jews. Not ouly the middle classes but also what may be called the genlue of the race Is advancing toward lis extermination. Hungarian literature is Saturated with the Jewish atmosphere. We must defend our national na-tional culture when we see it endangered. |