While the Rumanian press daily accuses the Jews of having organized against themselves the excesses in January in which some 2,000 of them were killed, Jews fear to appear in the streets of Bucharest as inspired rumors are continually circulated of another, bigger pogrom pending, it was reported from the Rumanian capital today.
Porunca Vremi, leading anti-Semitic daily of Rumania, demands that the Jews be placed in concentration camps “in order to avoid a repetition of the disorders.”
A propaganda campaign in Rumanian newspapers is gradually retouching the official version of the January insurrection to make it appear that “Communists and Jews were entirely responsible.”
Typical of this is an article in Sfarma Piatra purporting to prove that all pogroms are “nothing but Jewish propaganda designed to compromise the regime. This is true of the Bucharest pogrom as it was of the Russian pogroms organized during the tzarist regime,” the paper declares. It voices the singular conviction that Jews are never killed during pogroms; they only say so.
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