Since the declarations regarding the student excesses at the Roumanian Students’ Congress at Crajova that have been issued from the various Roumanian legations are all alike, it is therefore plausible to assume that they all emanated from the same source, namely, the Roumanian government, declared Deputy Michael Landau today. He again stated that it was untrue that he had “demanded the prohibition of the Congress,” but had merely asked “why the government officially participated in an anti-Semitic students’ congress, which does not represent the entire Roumanian student body, but merely the Jew-hating elements, and secondly it is untrue that the university authorities agreed with the government in permitting the congress.”
The exact opposite was the case, Deputy Landau charged. “Professor Jorg protested against the government permitting the congress without the consent of the university authorities. In the third place, whereas the government’s communique emphasized that the students’ organizations became demoralized through and after the Congress’s excesses, this does not correspond with the facts as published in the Bucharest “Quirentel,” where it was distinctly stated that this was untrue.”
Continuing, Deputy Landau declared that he was “unaware that the ‘strongest measures have been taken against the guilty,’ except for one student in Bucharest University, who was expelled for demolishing the Free Masons’ Lodge. I am unaware that anybody else has been punished and I do not even know whether the guilty have been tried. As long as the guilty remain unpunished and anti-Semitic students remain above the law, the situation will not improve, as for example in Jassy, where ten Jewish students were beaten and eight injured.
“I exceedingly regret that Roumanian representatives abroad utilized incorrect information which reduces Roumanian prestige in the eyes of public opinion abroad. I have already asked the foreign minister to reestablish the truth.”
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