Point blank charges that Dr. Alexander Vayda Voevod, Roumanian minister of the interior, has subsidized the anti-Semitic youth organization, the Iron Guard, and its paper, the “Iron Guard,” with government funds are made in today’s opposition press. The organ of the Liberal party, “Vittorul,” reveals that beginning in July Zelea Co-dreanu, anti-Semitic agitator and leader of the Iron Guard, who was yesterday acquitted of inciting to riot, had received funds for his organization and its paper from the ministry of the interior on an order from Dr. Vayda Voevod.
Similar charges are made by the Averescu organ, “Dreptatea.” These accusations conflict with the assurances recently given by Dr. Vayda Voevod that his department had assigned funds to anti-Semitic students only for cultural work. It appears to be the feeling in the press that the government is attempting to quiet the anti-Semitic students by giving them funds.
Threats against the court at Sighet have been renewed unless it releases the anti-Semitic agitators. A letter signed by “the Iron Hand,” says it will do to Sighet “what was done to Borscha, or even worse.” The letter describing the judges as “abominable slaves of the Jews” threatens to blow up all the government buildings.
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