The story about a numerus clausus at Paris University against Roumanian students must be due to a misunderstanding, Professor Minovici, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Bucharest University declared to-day, revealing incidentally that he did not agree with the Minister of Education in his prompt acceptance of the numerus clausus proposal made in the alleged letter from Professor Balthazard, the Dean of the Medical Faculty at Paris University (which Professor Balthazard in his interview with the J.T.A.-in the Bulletin of the 21st. inst.- denies was ever made in his letter).
For 75 years there has been a convention between Roumania and France, Professor Minovici said, guaranteeing full liberty to students of Roumanian citizenship irrespective of their faith to study in France. In my opinion, the Dean went on, it is impossible to introduce any numerus clausus in Roumania or elsewhere with Roumanian aid, or to make any distinction between students because of their religion. For this reason my answer to the proposal coming from Paris was different to the opinion expressed by the Minister of Education, that the proposal should be accepted, and that a mixed Roumanian-French Commission should be set up to select the students under the numerus clausus.
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