Vaida Voevod Makes Accusation at Parliament Session (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A direct charge that the Roumanian Government sent agents to Oradeamare to provoke the students was hurled at the Government by Vaida Voevod, leader of the peasant party and former prime minister.
The Government, he charged, was hypocritical in the matter of the anti-Jewish excesses. The students went only a little further than the Government had intended.
Minister of the Interior Duca, replying to the peasant leader, denied the charges, challenging him to produce his proof. “You always commit abuses and shield the guilty,” the peasant leader rejoined.
Minister Duca asked “What interest has the Government to quarrel with the Jews in the country and abroad? We have never tolerated this nationalism which is a madness.”
Four students on trial in Clausenburg for participation in the anti-Jewish excesses were sentenced to two months imprisonment. Four were acquitted.
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