Fancy me being brought up before a Jewish judge for trial: Professor Cuza, the antisemitic leader cried from the tribune of the Chamber to-day, rousing the House to laughter by his outburst, when he put an interpellation to the Minister of Justice, protesting against the large number of Jews who were being allowed to become lawyers, taking the bread out of the mouths of Christian lawyers, as he expressed it, and the far too many Jews who were being appointed to judgeships by the Government.
There are ever so many of these Jewish judges in the Province of Bukowina, Cuza complained. A great number of them were appointed by the old Austro-Hungarian Government in the days when Bukowina was part of Austria, he said, but the Roumanian Government has been adding to the number. And the Jewish lawyers, he said, are spreading in hordes all over the country.
The Minister of Justice made no reply to Professor Cuza’s interpellation.
The antisemitic League of National Christian Defence, of which Professor Cuza is President, whose Congress in 1927 was followed by the pogrom at Oradea Mare, almost every one of its Congresses being accompanied by anti-Jewish excesses in the neighbouring towns, has decided to hold another Congress on March 8th. to be attended by delegates from the Provinces of Bukowina, Moldavia and Bessarabia. Professor Cuza intends to present a Report to the Congress on the work of the League for the last eight years. Professor Cuza has himself asked the Government to permit the Congress to be held, giving his personal pledge that there will be no disorder this time.
When the League was suppressed at the end of 1927 after the Oradea Mare pogrom, the Central Council of the League issued a statement warning the Government that continued suppression was a constant cause of dissatisfaction which might easily manifest itself in violent demonstrations. The Council, the statement said, demands therefore that the Government should withdraw the repressive measures against the League which is the leading students’ organisation in the country. Shortly after the Maniu Government came into power the suppression order against the League was withdrawn.
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