While the attitude of King Carol toward his minister of the interior, Dr. Alexander Vayda Voevod, has improved as a result of the latter’s adoption of stricter measures against anti-Semitism, the “Dimineatza”, one of the leading papers of Bucharest, in an editorial entitled “The Price We Paid For Anti-Semitism”, points out that the entire economic crisis from which Roumania is now suffering is due exclusively to anti-Semitism.
The paper says, “Whoever knows the situation abroad also knows that when anti-Semitic disturbances begin, Roumania’s foreign bankers immediately interpret the attacks as anarchy and fear for the security of their loans. Thus all our military officers, teachers, and state officials who complain that they have not received their salaries in the last few months should better concentrate themselves on protecting the country from anti-Semitism; then we shall get credits and they will receive their salaries”.
On orders from Bucharest the police last night raided several students’ houses in Jassy which is the hotbed of the anti-Semitic student movement. While considerable quantities of anti-Semitic literature were confiscated no arrests were made.
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