M. Titulescu, who has been Roumanian Ambassador in London, has formed a new Cabinet in succession to that of M. Mironescu, who resigned recently.
In addition to the Premiership, M. Titulescu will hold the portfolio of Minister of the Interior, in which capacity he will be responsible for the maintenance of order in the country.
The Jewish population places great hopes in the new Government, regarding M. Tituleseu as a man of determination and of goodwill towards the Jews, to which he has frequently given expression, and the are hopeful that no antisemitic disturbances will occur under his administration.
Dr. Lupu, the leader of the independent Peasants Party, who is Minister of Justice in M. Titulescu’s Government, is also known as a man of liberal views and a good friend of the Jews, and it is hoped that he will finally settle the long-standing grievance of the Staatenlose, by enacting the new Nationality Law repeatedly promised by the Ministers of Justice in the Maniu and Mironescu Cabinets.
The appointment of Professor Jorga, the outstanding figure in Roumanian cultural life, as Minister of Education, will also, it is hoped, mean the end of the antisemitic disturbandes at the Universities.
??????friend of the Jews. When some years ago the serious anti-Jewish outbreaks took place at Oradea Mare, he telegraphed to the late Mr. Lucien Wolf, expressing “profound bitterness and sadness at the acts which had been committed. There is not one of us, ” he wrote, “who does not see that the first victim of such troubles is Roumania berself.”.
At the time of the famine in Bessarabia, when the Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations arranged a performance in London in aid of the famine-stricken Jewish victims of Bessarabia, M. Titulescu came to the performance and in addressing the audience, he declared that “the welfare of the Jewish population in my country is a national interest, and we seek to assure equal rights to the Jews as Roumanian citizens and complete freedom of consoience and thought without distinction of race or religion.”
The Haham Dr. Gaster in greeting M. Titulescu on that occasion said that M. Titulescu had been a friend of the Jews at all times and they would understand what he meant when he emphasised “at all times”.
M. Lupu, the new Minister of Justice, in the course of an interview with the London Editor of the J.T.A. last summer, denounced the antisemitic activities of the Cuzists in unmeasured terms. I am a Christian, he said, in the course of the interview, and as such I cannot do other than oppose antisemitism. The Old Testament is the foundation of the Christian religion, and if Cuza attacks Judaism, which is the foundation of Christianity, he is atacking Christianity, too. The logical end of antisemitism is heathenism, as is shown by the moverment of antisemites like Ludendorff to overthrow the Bible and restore the old heathen gods.
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