A new statement broadcast by the Rumanian Government, assuring respect for the Constitution, was interpreted in political circles today as indication that Premier Octavian Goga’s cabinet would move slowly with its anti-Semitic program.
Meanwhile, the Government announced that it would introduce control of Jewish-owned theatres and cinemas, but did not indicate the method of control. Undersecretaries were appointed for the German and Hungarian minorities, but no representative of the Jewish minority will be named, the Jewish question remaining under direct Government jurisdiction.
Premier Goga will tomorrow receive Dr. Theodor Fischer, president, and Dr. Samuel Singer, vice-president of the Rumanian Jewish Party.
The “All for the Fatherland” Party (Iron Guard) denied press reports that it would not participate in the next Parliamentary elections. The party stated it was actively preparing for the forthcoming elections, hoping to improve its last results — when it polled the sensational proportion of 21 per cent of the votes.
Despite an official announcement that Adeverul and Dimineata, Jewish-owned democratic dailies suppressed last week, would not be allowed to resume publication, it was understood the papers would be permitted to re-appear under “pure-Rumanian” ownership. Four other papers have been suppressed. They are Lumea of Jassy, the German-language papers, Morgenblatt and Allgemeine Zeitung of Czernowitz, and the Russian paper, Nasha Reci of Bucharest.
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