“We must demand from the Russians, Germans, Bulgarians, Ukrainians and Jews who live in our territory that they should be loyal citizens of the Roumanian State, and at the same time we must help them to be productive in their fields of activity and to guarantee their freedom of cultural development, and the use of their own language,” the Minister for Bessarabia, M. Pan Halipa, declared.
The Minister replied to an attack made in the “Cuvintul” on the attitude of the Bessarabian deputies in Parliament. These deputies, the paper said, are devoting themselves far too much to minority questions.
“The complaint is absurd,” the Minister replied. “We Bessarabians interest ourselves so much in the minorities question, because it is a real issue. We know that the persecution of the minorities was one of the reasons of the collapse of Czarist Russia. The representatives of Bessarabia do not want this to happen in Roumania.”
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