The Bucharest correspondent of the Voelkscher Beobachter, in a despatch today insists that despite denials “issued under Jewish influence,” anti-Semitism is growing in Roumania. The Government realizes this, the correspondent asserts, but is making efforts to avoid public conflict on this score.
A secret circular which Premier Vaida-Voivod allegedly sent out to all bankers in Roumania, advising them to bear in mind when engaging new employees whom the majority of the population of the country consists of, since it had been repeatedly complained of that bankers were deliberately choosing for their staffs “members of one particular ethnological minority,” is quoted by the paper.
This cannot continue, the circular is quoted by the paper as stating, without endangering interests of the State. The paper asserts that despite the careful wording of the circular, there is no doubt as to whom is meant by “ethnological minority.”
The paper ridicules the decision of the Palestine Government to admit a thousand Jewish workers from Germany into Palestine. “Let’s hope the British Government, in referring to workers, does not mean manual laborers. Otherwise it will have to wait a long time for its thousand beloved guests,” it remarks.
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