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Put Curbs on Students in Rumania

June 4, 1935
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The Rumanian Cabinet today approved a number of measures aimed at maintaining peace in the universities and preventing anti-Jewish outbreaks there. The measures approved are:

1. Students guilty of inciting to riot should receive severe punishment.

2. No student should be permitted to join a student organization which is not recognized by the university authorities.

3. Students are to be prohibited from attending political meetings.

4. No student is to obtain special rights and privileges.

The students of the universities in Rumania will have to sign a pledge that they adhere to the above conditions, the Cabinet decree provides.

HITS AT VAIDA-VOEVOD

Dr. William Filderman, president of the Union of Rumanian Jews, in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, today contends that the measures proposed by ex-premier Vaida-Voevod for the enforcement of a numerus valachius for Jewish students in the Rumanian universities are not really designed to- reduce unemployment in Rumania but are nothing more than an attack upon the rights of the Jewish population, as well as an attempt to make it impossible for Jews to earn a livelihood.

“A real solution to the problem of national labor would proceed along entirely different lines than

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