During a debate in the Roumanian parliament yesterday on agriculture, Professor Alexander Cuza, anti-Semitic leader, criticized the minister of commerce and agriculture, M. Manoilescu, for participating in a banquet given here last week in honor of the leader of the Ort organization, Dr. Aaron Singalowsky.
To this Manoilescu replied on behalf of the government that the Ort is performing an important social work which no government can consider unfavorably. At this point Professor Cuza interrupted the Minister, saying that through his action Manoilescu had created a critical situation. In reply Professor Cuza was told that he may express his opinions privately, but that there is no prospect of the parliament supporting him in this regard.
The banquet for Dr. Singalowsky was given on the occasion of the opening of a new Ort center in Bucharest. Besides Manoilescu, a number of other representatives of the government were present. They all praised the Ort as an organization that renders helpful service not only to Roumanian Jewry, but to Roumania in general.
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