The Justice Ministry published a decree today stating that henceforth all persons who had lost their citizenship, together with their children will be subject to the laws governing foreigners. (It is unofficially estimated that some 300,000 Jews were deprived of their status as Rumanian citizens during the recent revision of Jewish-held naturalizations decreed by King Carol.)
Persons living in the Old Kingdom (pre-War Rumania) who were foreign citizens prior to August 16, 1916, as well as those who settled in Bessarabia after March 27, 1918, and Transylvania and Bukowina after Dec. 3, 1918, are permitted under the decree to remain in Rumania for three months. Others will be allowed to stay a year.
The decree provides that all those who have been denaturalized must apply within a month after their loss of citizenship for permission to reside in Rumania. The edict was signed at Sinaia, summer residence of the King, by Carol, Premier patriarch Miron Christea, Justice Minister Victor Ismandi and Interior Minister Armand Calinescu.
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