Cuzists and Hitlerists Among German Minority in Roumania Join Forces: Will Stand As United Party at

The antisemitic organisation in Roumania headed by Professor Cuza has concluded an agreement for the formation of a united antisemitic party with the Hitlerist organisation formed in Transylvania by some of the German minority there, according to a report in the “Zara Noastra”, the organ of the new party founded by M. Octavien Goga, who was Minister of the Interior in the Averescu Government, and who, though he pursued an antisemitic policy himself while in office, is now seeking to obtain Jewish support for his new Party.

Professor Cuza’s son, Deputy George Cuza, the paper says, has met at Timesvar the leader of the Transylvanian Saxon minority, M. Fabricius, who is at the same time the President of the Transylvanian Nazi Party, and it has been agreed as a result of the meeting to form a united Cuzist-Hitlerist front in Roumania. The two parties will stand together at the next elections. A joint programme has been drawn up, clause 4 of which provides for a campaign “to bring about the triumph of the Pan-Aryan idea”.

The paper suggests that the agreement has received the approval of the Hitlerist headquarters in Germany, and it goes on to assert that Professor Jorga, the Prime Minister, is not unaware of what has been going on, and that at the next election he and his followers will join the Cuzists and the Nazis of Transylvania in a united party.

I am unreservedly an adherent of Hitler, Professor Cuza declared in a speech which he delivered in the Roumanian Parliament in December. There is an intimate association between the programme of the Roumanian League for the Protection of Christian National Interests and that of Hitler, he proceeded, and nothing can prevent co-operation between me and Hitler, who will assuredly assume the German leadership in the spring.

In December, too, a special delegation of Hitlerist students came from Germany to attend the Conference of the Christian Students’ League of Roumania, a Cuzist organisation, which was held that month at Sibiu (Hermannstadt) in Transylvania. The Hitlerist students were led by Carl Motz, who in his speech predicted that very soon Germany would be governed by Hitler and Roumania by Cuza. The President of the Conference, a student named Tanasescu, welcomed the leader of the Hitlerist delegation, Carl Motz, as the representative of Hitler, and amid great applause from the gathering thanked them for coming from Germany to help them in Roumania in working out a solution of their vital problems. Carl Motz, in his reply, said that the Roumanian people were fighting the same fight as Hitler in Germany and he urged the Roumanian students to engage in the same kind of activity as the National Socialists in Germany, to hasten the coming of the Cuza Government in Roumania, as there was soon going to be a Hitler Government in Germany.

Messages of greeting were sent by the Conference to Cuza and Hitler.

Professor Cuza has several times boasted that the Prime Minister, Professor Jorga, is in agreement with him, and in a speech which he delivered in Parliament in December, he said: Between Professor Jorga and myself there is only a difference of methods, but in essentials we are at one, and by the spring there will be a Cuzist regime in Roumania.

In February the Bucharest daily “Lupta” reported that Professor Cuza had in conversations with Deputies of various parties boasted: We two, I and my friends, and Jorga and his friends, will come out together against you (the other Parties) and we shall show you what we can do.

Have we really come to a political understanding between Cuza and Jorga, the “Lupta” commented. Will the Prime Minister and Cuza, stand together on the same election platform? Jorga was present at the conversations which Cuza had with the Deputies, it said, and Cuza’s assertion sounds very plausible when we consider that Jorga only smiled when he was asked whether it was true.