Deputy Dr. Samuel Singer, member of the Jewish National Party, has made a protest in Parliament against the maltreatment of Esther Beilis, a Jewish inhabitant of the town of Akerman, in Bessarabia, and her sons, Motel aged 17 and Mayer aged 15, on the night of February 16th. and on following days by a non-commissioned officer and several soldiers of the frontier guard, in an attempt to get from them a confession that they were in association with Communist elements. Deputy Singer asked the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of War whether they did not think that an investigation should be carried out on the spot, so that these subordinate officials should be punished.
The Minister of the Interior, M. Argetoianu, replied that an investigation would be carried out.
Deputy Dr. Joseph Fischer complained at the same session of the recent prohibition of meetings of the Jewish National Party which had been arranged at Zighet and Viscul. All the legal requirements with regard to the convocation of the meetings had been met, he said, and to prohibit the meetings of the Jewish Party, which was conducting its work by legal means and aimed at securing peace between all sections of the population, while Cuzists were allowed to conduct their dangerous anti-Jewish agitation, was in flagrant contradiction to the Constitution.
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