Professor Valerian Pop, the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, declared to-day in the Chamber that the race or creed of Roumanian judges does not enter into the question of the validity of their judgment.
The question had been raised by two antisemitic members of the Chamber, Deputies Nichifor and Robu, who had complained about Jews being allowed to hold judicial positions in the Province of Bukovina.
The objection against Jewish judges in the Province of Bukovina where they have survived to a large extent from the days when Bukovina belonged to the old Austrian Empire, is a stock-in-trade of the Cuzists, and a short while ago, Professor Cuza spoke about it with indignation in the Chamber, exclaiming: Fancy me being brought up before a Jewish judge in Bukovina!
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