The Jews of Roumania will not shed a tear at the fall of the Jorga Government, the “Bukowinaer Volkszeitung, the organ of the Union of Roumanian Jews, writes. Jorga was an antisemite, it says, and an antisemite he has remained. The fact that it was during his period of office that his former colleague, the antisemitic leader Cuza, wasmarked out for special distinction, and when he delivered his attacks in Parliament on the Jews, always got approbatory smiles from the Government benches, is characteristic of the attitude adopted by Jorga as Premier towards the Jews and Jewish questions.
It is also characteristic that after Professor Jorga’s resignation, it was not the officials of the ministry that he received, but Professor Cuza’s brother. It squares with the talk during Professor Jorga’s term of office about a coming election pact between Jorga and the Cuzists.
It must be admitted, however, the paper adds, that during the Jorga Government there were no Cuzist acts of anti-Jewish violence such as we had under previous Governments, but this is the achievement of the Minister of the Interior, M. Argetoianu, who would not tolerate any antisemitic excesses.
The Jorga Government, the paper concludes, will to the entire country, but most of all to the Jews, go down to history as an unpleasant memory.
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