League of Nations authorities have disposed of the questions of treatment of Jews in Rumania and Austria, and they will soon receive a petition on the Jews of Hungary.
Competent League Authorities, it was authoritatively learned, deem the Rumanian minority question to be ended with an oral undertaking given by the Rumanian Government to Britain and France not to change the status of the Jews from that existing before the anti-Semitic regime of ex-Premier Octavian Goga.
Accordingly, it has been decided that the League Council’s Committee of Three on minorities should not consider a petition submitted by the World Jewish Congress on Rumania, and the Rumanian Government will not submit remarks on the minority question requested by the League Secretariat a few months ago.
A petition on Austria will not even be submitted to the Committee of Three. League authorities have concluded that the German Government, which succeeds the Austrian Government, is not sound by the latter’s obligations, including the minorities clauses of the St. Germain Treaty.
In connection with impending legislation in Hungary restricting Jewish participation in economic life to twenty per cent, the World Jewish Congress intends to submit to the League a petition charging violation of the minorities clauses of the Trianon Treaty, which provide for full equality of citizens regardless of religion and origin.
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