Professor Ion Zelea Codreanu, father of Deputy Zelea Codreanu, the leader of the antisemitic Iron Guard organisation, which was recently suppressed by the Government after the anti-Jewish excesses in Jassy, has been returned to Parliament in the by-election at Tutova, polling 5,200 votes against 4,344 obtained by the Liberal candidate.
The return to Parliament of a second Deputy of the extreme antisemitic terrorist organisation to join the large contingent of Cuzist Deputies, headed by Professor Cuza himself, and with many Deputies of other Parties openly avowing their sympathy with the antisemitic programme, has caused apprehension in Roumanian Jewry, being taken as symptomatic of the present political trend in the country.
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