Every Rumanian, whether Jews or Gentile, is welcome to join the fight for a free Rumania, an authorized spokesman of the Free Rumanian National Committee declared today.
Denying rumors that Jews had been banned from the movement or discouraged from joining it, the spokesman said:
“Aiming for liberation of Rumania from Axis oppression, the Free Rumanian movement fights as well for stampeding the Nazi doctrine. In a country ruled along civilized, constitutional and democratic lines there is no place for a racial creed and religious intolerance among its nationals. No such differences could rule the fight to which the Free Rumanian movement devotes its activities.”
Apprehension over the movement’s attitude toward racial questions was recently expressed by Jewish and democratic circles in view of the fact that Virgil Tilea, former Rumanian minister to Britain, who is head of the committee, was for many years a close associate of Dr. Alexander Vaida-Voevod, leader of the Rumanian Front, which advocated a numerous clauses for Jews in all spheres of professional and economic life and emigration of Jews as a principal means of solving the Rumanian ” Jewish question. ” Tilea was known as Vaida-Voevod’s right-hand man.
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