Hundreds of Jews throughout the country were reported today to be applying for permits to Emigrate to Ethiopia to escape the anti-Semitic program of Premier Octavian Goga’s Nationalist cabinet.
(Committees of Jews, according to the Associated Press, also visited Mexican, Brazilian, French and British consulates to ask about possibilities of mass migrations to Mexico, Brazil, Madagascar and Australia. The Finance Ministry forbids Jews leaving the country to take any money, the A.P. said.)
Six hundred Jewish families in the province of Bessarabia have applied to the Italian consulate at Galatz for permits to go to Italy’s African empire, the newspaper Capitala reported, while similar applications were being made at Italian consulates in other parts of Rumania.
Italian consuls are awaiting instructions from Rome before issuing the visas, the report said. Many of the applicants are physicians, engineers and attorneys, it was stated.
Three Jewish lawyers in the town of Hotin, Bessarabia, have been struck from the lawyers’ register.
Viltorul, official organ of the National Liberal Party, reported that the Government had decided to discontinue provision in the State budget for synagogue subsidies. One million lei (about $10,000) was set aside for this purpose during 1937.
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