The resignation of the Jorga Government is joyful news, the Yiddish daily “Unser Zeit” of Kishineff, which is edited by Deputy Landau, one of the leaders of the Club of Jewish Deputies, writes in an editorial article.
The whole country is happy that the Jorga Government has gone, it says. People are beginning to breathe again. All the provinces are rejoicing. What does the morrow hold in store? What Government will succeed the Jorga Government? It is difficult to answer these questions. But whatever Government may come after Jorga, it cannot possibly be worse than the Jorga Government was, and things cannot possibly be worse than they were under the Jorga Government. That is assuming, of course, that none of the members of the Jorga Government stay on in the new Government, neither the cynic Argetoianu who tried to play the Roumanian Dictator, nor the Minister of the Interior, M. Otescu, nor the rest of them.
All Roumanian Government for the past 12 years have been such that we have had no occasion to rejoice. The country has groaned under all the various regimes of all the various Governments, even under the regime of that “Saviour”, Julius #aniu, which subjected Jews to plenty of suffering as a result of the activities of the Minister of the Interior, M. ### Vayda-Voyvod, who flattered and flirted with the leaders of the Iron Guard.
But the blackest and worst regime of any of all these various Governments did not do so much harm, did not rouse so much antagonism, so much bad blood as the regime of the Jorga Government, “Unser Zeit” says. The Jorga-Argetoianu regime was a cynical, insolent, scoffing regime. It was a regime of dictatorship, of terrorism, of inquisition. It was a regime which completed the economic devastation of the country, especially of us Jews. Under Jorga, the worst enemy of Israel, the ugliest Jew-baiter, Cuza, sat triumphant with a dozen of his Deputies, and poured obliquy and calumny upon the Jews, and the whole Chamber, led by the Prime Minister Jorga, smiled at him for doing so.
It is difficult to say who is likely to be the successor to this black Jorga Government, but the only thing we can say of the Jorga Government is-Thank God it has gone.
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