“Are you for Leon Blum?” ask anti-Semitic agitators in Rumanian towns and cities of Jews seen in the streets.
If the answer is in the affirmative or a reply is refused to the question of support for France’s first Jewish Prime Minister, the Jew is soundly thrashed.
Such is the latest method of provocation used in places like Falcau, Saletin, Brodina and Rusca in the province of Bucovina, where attacks on Jews have become a matter of course.
The National Christian Party of Professors Alexander Cuza and Octavian Goga has just issued its new political program which contains a clause forbidding Jews or Freemasons from joining. Members of the party are expressly prohibited from having any relations with Jews.
In addition to the Cuzist storm troop detachments, modelled on Nazi lines, special “Cross Brotherhoods,” consisting of youths between the ages of 14 and 18, are to be organized, according to the published platform of the party.
From Curdei, it is reported a recent Cuzist conference was climaxed by a “Jew-hunt” in which windows of Jewish homes were smashed. The gendarmerie commander of Radautzi, Major Dragalinescu, has arrived in Cindei for an investigation of the affair.
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