The Hungarian Government has made a great effort to legalise
marriage between Jews and Christians, but it has for the present been defeated, the Bill having been thrown out of the Upper House by 109 to 106. The higher Catholic.prelates who have seats in the House of course resisted the Bill, not so much because Jews are Jews, as because they disapprove civil marriage altogether ; and they were followed by the younger nobles, who came up from the country and voted from sheer detestation of the race. The Bill will, of course, be carried in a year or two, for even the stupidity of caste cannot long prevent the nobles from seeing the absurdity of their position. They detest the Jews for their separateness, and support a law which compels them to keep separate. Orthodox Jews are not dis- pleased, but pleased with a vote which retains the most effective of all barriers between them and the surrounding Gentile world.
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