While a delegation of the Borscha Jewish relief committee today urged the government to issue special relief postage stamps, new anti-Semitic threats and agitation are reported from Transylvania and Bukowina. The Borscha delegation presented a memorandum for the special postage stamp issue to Premier Maniu who forwarded it to the minister of finance with a request for an urgent decision.
At Sighet in Bukowina, the president of the district court, received a number of anonymous threatening letters warning him that he would be killed if he sentenced Father Dumitrescu, the anti-Semitic priest whose trial is scheduled to begin shortly. The public prosecutor has begun an investigation into the threats. Three Jassy students were arrested after they had received a package containing leaflets condemning the trial of Zelea Codreanu.
At Brashov and Uj Kelet in Transylvania new Cuzist students’ branches were formed. In Brashov only a few joined, mostly unemployed shop assistants. While the local priests refused to bless the Cuzists’ banner, a military chaplain. Father Hociota, performed the ceremony. The leader of the Cuzists, M. Mihutiu then began the publication of an anti-Semitic paper, the “Trojan Sword” which was immediately suppressed by the district attorney and the banner of the Cuzists confiscated by order of the secret police.
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