Fascist students who were members of the outlawed Iron Guard recently staged an anti-Jewish demonstration in Bucharest University during which seven Jews and fourteen fascists were injured, the Jewish Chronicle reports today from Istanbul.
The riot started, the report says, when the anti-Semitic students refused to sit near Jews and demanded that the rector of the university. Prof. Kamalescu, suspend lectures until Jews had been segregated on “ghetto branches,” As a result of the fracas, 41 of the fascist students were arrested. The report also discloses that several students have been seized in Bucharest and other parts of Rumania for spreading anti-Jewish propaganda.
Another report from Istanbul alleges that the Rumanian Government has secretly circulated a memorandum to officials of the various ministries instructing them to fill government posts, wherever possible, with non-Jews. As a result, the report charges, few Jews have been re-employed in banks, as teachers or in other professional positions.
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