Notwithstanding the promise made in the Chamber by the Prime Minister, Professor Jorga, that the documents relating to the shooting outrage in Soroca would be handed over to Parliament to enable it to make a new enquiry into the affair, there is no trace yet of the documents. Deputies take the view that the authorities concerned are sabotaging the projected Parliamentary enquiry in the belief that if it drags long enough, it will be dropped. It is also suggested that the recent cases of Roumanian peasants being shot down by Soviet frontier guards while attempting to cross into Bessarabia overshadow the Soroco affair, which can well be dropped now. Deputies complain that when they ask for the Soroco documents at the Ministry of War they are told that the documents are at the Ministry of the Interior, and vice versa.
Interpellations on the subject by Jewish and Socialist Deputies are not put on the agenda by the Government.
As Parliament will soon rise for the end of the session, it is feared that the matter may be dragged until it is too late to do anything.
In view of the statement made by the Roumanian Minister at Washington, M. Davila, about a month ago to a delegation of the United Roumanian Jews of America that the Government had promised a new investigation and pledging his own co-operation to have the enquiry carried out, the Jewish Deputies intend putting a new interpellation in regard to the Soroco affair within the next few days.
Similar tactics are being employed by the authorities, it is also complained, with regard to the demand made for the reopening of the Tarbuth Hebrew High School in Soroco. Professor Jorga recently assured a delegation of representatives of all sections of the Jewish population of Roumania that there would be a new Government enquiry made into this matter. The inspector who is to make the enquiry refuses, however, to go to Soroco, it is stated, contending that his other duties make it impossible for him to leave Bucharest for a long time.
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