All Jews in Rumania must enroll in the newly-created government-controlled Central Jewish organization before February 20, on pain of ten years imprisonment and a 200,000 lei fine, approximately $1,400, it was announced today by the Bucharest radio. The forms that have to be used in filling out the registration papers will be sold for 20 lei, which will be used to help finance the Jewish body, the broadcast stated.
Comments on the new anti-Jewish regulations in Rumania are coupled with continued violent attacks on Dr. William Filderman, former president of the dissolved Union of Jewish Communities, in the Rumanian papers reaching here today.
Filderman is charged with, firstly, fostering a whispering campaign that undermined Rumanian business and resulted in factories closing and much unemployment; secondly, with being instrumental in the ousting of the late Octavian Goga, leading Rumanian anti-Semite who was premier for a six-week period early in 1938; and, lastly, with intervening for Jews at the peace conference in 1919.
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