The Civil Section of the Bucharest Tribunal has approved the statutes of the Federation of Cuzist Youth, giving it legal status as a juridical person, and thus conferring upon it a number of facilities enjoyed only by organisations which have been recognised by the authorities. Astonishment is expressed in Jewish quarters that such a decision has been reached, although the statutes of the organisation submitted for approval contain a clause which pledges its members to call upon all lovers of the fatherland to fight against the menace of the Jewish element. The purpose of the organisation is to band together the students at the High Schools into a crusade for propagating antisemitic doctrines.
The State Attorney and the representatives of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Labour are stated to have supported the application for legalisation of the Cuzist Federation, while the representative of the Foreign Ministry opposed it on the ground that it might create difficulties with foreign opinion.
The decision of the court bears the signatures among others of Jon Popescu-Muscel, himself a notorious antisemitic agitator, and Nikifor Robu, a Cuzist who was recently appointed by the Government as economic expert in Transylvania to study the economic position of the population of the Province. It is pointed out in Jewish quarters that while the antisemitic Cuzist organisation has been legalised, important Jewish organisations in Roumania, like the Roumanian Keren Hayesod, have been refused recognition as juridical persons.
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