Dr. Alexander Cuza, leader of the National Christian Party, today told a rally of 40,000 peasants in northern Rumania that his party’s principal aim was to solve the Jewish problem in Rumania exactly as Reichsfushrer Hitler has done it in Germany.
Demanding a change in Rumanian foreign policy, Dr. Cuza declared that the Franco-Rumanian alliance could no longer be maintained because France had lost its “spiritual balance.”
“Our place is with Germany, which solved the Jewish problem in an admirable manner,” the anti-Semitic leader said.
He declared that King Carol, under the constitution, could not withhold power from his party.
At the same time, Dr. Alexander Vaida-Voevod, former premier and ousted sub-leader of the National Peasants Party, praised Dr. Cuza’s aims before a crowd of 25,000 persons at Kishineff.
He urged his followers to discard their European dress because it was worn by Jews and return to the peasant costumes of their ancestors. He advocated rapprochement with Germany and Italy.
No disorders were reported anywhere in Bucharest today, although anti-Semitic papers were the only ones being sold on the streets. In most other cities, too, newsdealers feared to display liberal and democratic papers.
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