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(By Our Paris Correspondent)

That the Roumanian government fosters anti-Semitism and is therefore directly responsible for the anti-Jewish excesses in Roumania which have startled all civilized people, was the unequivocal statement made here by Maitre Henri Torres, at a massmeeting at the Salle Wagram where a number of distinguished Frenchmen voiced their protest against Roumanian anti-Semitism.

Maitre Henri Torres was the principal speaker at the meeting and he delivered a report of his recent stay in Roumania.

“The anti-Semitic movement in Roumania,” declared M. Torres, “is being directly fostered by the Government. In the towns, where the population is predominantly Jewish, the army officers prance about the streets with anti-Semitic badges in their buttonholes, openly mocking the Jews as they pass. At the University of Jassy, standing under the portraits of the King and Queen of Roumania, Prof. Cuza was preaching to his students murder and pogroms against the Jews.”

The assurance that the League for Human Rights will not rest until Roumanian Jews will receive their rights, was made by M. Ferdinand Herold, Vice-President of the League, in a letter addressed to the meeting, in which it is declared:

“We have always protested against the barbaric legislation which long ago reduced the Jews of Roumania to the level of ‘Heimatslose.’ The stipulations of the Treaty of Berlin had been treated as a dead letter by all the Governments of Roumania. The insistence of those who have always worked for the triumph of human solidarity has resuited in new treaties being framed, but the laws have disregarded the new trea### also. We shall not rest until the Roumanian Jews enjoy all the rights to which they are entitled.”

The meeting also adopted a resolution denouncing vigorously the anti-Semitic policy of the Roumanian government.

“This meeting,” the resolution reads, inter alia, “protests with the utmost vigor against the horrors and the massacres perpetrated in Roumania against the Jews, with the undisguised connivance of the Government of M. Bratiano. This meeting unanimously declares that the Roumanian Government has signed the international treaties and has thereby assumed the responsibility to respect the Jewish rights in the same way as those of every other national minority. The excesses which are being committed daily against the Jewish population, the closing of Jewish theatres and of synagogues, constitute a flagrant violation of the international treaties. Liberal France condemns the Bill which has been introduced by Prof. Anghelescu (Minister of Education) seeking to prohibit the use of their mother tongue by five millions of non-Roumanians, including Jews, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Russians, Ukrainians and others. France demands from the Roumanian Government that this Bill should be withdrawn as quickly as possible. Should the Government refuse to do so, it will find the whole of the civilized world in arms against it.”

The Executive Committee of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America will hold a celebration in honor of the cooperative agreement between the Union of Orthodox Rabbis and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America on January 25 at the Ohab Zedek Synagogue, New York City.

The agreement between the two organizations was concluded several months ago and, it was declared, will result in bringing about greater unity in the ranks of the Orthodox congregations, particularly on the supervision of the sale of kosher meat.