The Roumanian government was charged with direct responsibility today for the recent anti-Semitic student disturbances at Galatz and Braila. In an interpellation to Premier Mironescu in Parliament today, Michael Landau, Jewish deputy, blamed the government for the troubles because it had enabled the students to go to the student congress by granting free railway fare.
Deputy Landau accused the police of remaining inactive during the riots while the students’ leaders who organized the disturbances have gone unpunished. Pointing to the growth of anti-Semitic agitation in the last fortnight, Deputy Landau asked the Premier whether he would tolerate a repetition of these occurrences and what steps he intends taking to make a recurrence impossible.
Prof. Nicholas Jorga, rector of the Bucharest University and a close friend of King Carol, then rose from his seat and repeated what he said Thursday, that not students but schoolboys were responsible for the disturbances. At the same time he charged that Jews and anti-Semites were spreading a poisonous atmosphere through the country.
Deputy Vlad Demitriu of Galatz praised the students’ manifestation during the Braila congress. Admitting that a few regrettable acts had taken place, he suggested that the best way to solve the anti-Semitic problem in Roumania was to put Deputy Landau and Professor Alexander Cuza, anti-Semitic leader, in one room and let them thrash out matters. Professor Cuza remarked that he would define anti-Semitism not to Landau but to Parliament.
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