“We have nothing to withdraw. The fact is that horrible brutalities have been committed against the Zionist worker, Bronstein, in Yedinez, Bessarabia, and for these brutalities the Roumanian government must be held responsible and not the J.T.A. as Mr. Rosenthal wishes to imply.”
This statement was made by Dr. S. Margoshes, editor of “The Day,” in yesterday’s edition, in reply to a letter which he received from J. Rosenthal, Technical Counsellor to the Roumanian Legation, in which Mr. Rosenthal protests against the “false accusations and unjust criticisms” which have appeared in “The Day” in connection with the Bronstein case.
“Great thanks, I believe, are due the J.T.A. for giving public opinion of the entire world the news of the Bronstein case,” Dr. Margoshes writes. “Were it not for the J.T.A. the entire matter might not have become known. The Roumanian government certainly would have been silent about it. And even if not all the details which the first J.T.A. report about the Bronstein case contained were entirely accurate, it is also understandable. It is not possible for any news agency, not even the largest in the world, such as the Associated Press, or Reuter, always to give spot news with all the i’s dotted. Small errors occur in the details before they can be confirmed, who is a Zionist and has been accused by the Roumanian government of Communism, has been tortured by the Roumanian police in an inhuman way, can no longer be denied even by the Roumanian government itself, and the credit for this very important fact is due the J.T.A.”
Dr. Margoshes further says that all criticism which has been made in the Jewish press against the Roumanian government has been fully justified. Only last Sunday another case occurred in Roumania similar to the Bronstein case.
This is what “Unser Zeit” of June 29th has to say:
“It is ridiculous, comical and nauseating when the sworn Jew, Mr. Rosenthal, technical counsellor of the Roumanian Legation, tries to whitewash the former government by various lies. This sworn witness has the impudence to say that his government informed him telegraphically upon his inquiry that it knows nothing about the incident at Yedinez. This is not only impudent, crude and cynical, but also ridiculous. Whom is he trying to persuade that the government had no idea about the incident in Yedinez? Whom does he think to be so naive as to believe him?”
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