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The demand that the League of Nations send its representative to investigate the anti-Jewish excesses in Roumania is made in the “Day” of Dec. 24. The paper says:
“The Club of Jewish Deputies in the Polish Sejm filed a protest with the League against the anti-Semitic excesses in Roumania. But the League refused to take action on the ground that the protest contained remarks that were too sharp. But why wait for protests from Jews? The League, which has among its duties the protection of the lives and rights of the national minorities, should have taken action without the urging of protests. It is not yet too late. The League is not free even now from the responsibility and should send its representative to investigate the situation in Roumania.”
The anti-Jewish excesses in Roumania are an inevitable consequence of the attitude of the government and the Parliament, declares the “Jewish World” of Philadelphia, in its issue of Dec. 23.
“It is obvious,” the paper writes “that the excesses are perpetrated with the knowledge and approval of the Roumanian government. … Is it necessary to prove this, when we see the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Education delivering anti-Semitic speeches in Paliament? Little need be said of the Jew-baiting fulminations of Parliament Deputies. Is it any wonder that the students assault Jews when their professors preach Jew hatred to them?
“Is there a country anywhere, since the dark days of the medieval ages, where government leaders speaking from the Parliament tribunal and professors from the university rostrum openly incite the population against the Jews?
“And it is such a government that seeks loans in America and expects to be regarded as civilized! Roumania may send her Maries and Ileanas to the other nations, but her deeds brand her as the most barbaric country in the world today.”
The “American Hebrew” of Dec. 24, discussing the Roumanian excesses, remarks: “Roumania now has the unenviable distinction of being the anti-Semitic plague spot of Europe and of possessing a government without the capacity to be either honest or decently humanitarian. When we think of the reception accorded to her Queen recently in this country we realize how unwilling our coreligionists are to condemn and how patient they are even under agonizing circumstances.'”
Among the students elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honor scholarship fraternity, at the University of Chicago are Helen Engel, Morris Lipcovitz, Albert Meyer, Harry Ruskin, Samuel Spira and Oliver Vogel Albert Meyer was elected President.
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