Roumanian Government Assigns Indemnity Sums for Jewish Communities

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The credit of 19,636,000 lei which the Premier and Finance Minister, M. Vintila Bratianu, has assigned for distribution among the victims of the anti-Jewish excesses in Oradeomare, Cluj, Jassy, Timis and Tirgu-Ocna, will be allocated in the following manner: 9,600,000 lei in Cluj; 8,800,000 lei in Oradeomare; 136,000 lei in Timis; 120,000 lei in Jassy and 980,000 lei in Tirgu-Ocna.

This sum does not include compensation for the Scrolls of the law, Taleisim and the sacred objects destroyed in the synagogues during the disturbances. A special commision has been appointed, including representatives of the Ministry of Public Worship and of the respective Jewish Communities, which will draw up an estimate of the value of these articles.

The Police Commisioners Paranka and Ikac, who were dismissed from their posts in Cluj after the devastations, have brought an action against the Government in the Appeal Court of Cluj on the ground that they were wrongfully dismissed. They contend that they were not responsible for what happened in Cluj.

“The devastations in Oradeomare which showed the complicity or the lack of authority of the Government have injured Roumania’s prestige abroad,” Deputy Madgearu, one of the leaders of the National Peasants’ Party, declared speaking in the chamber on the decision of the League of Nations in the Roumanian-Hungarian dispute over the optants question.

“The devastations,” he said, “were not followed by the political sanctions which would have meant that the country dissociated itself from these humiliating activities. There were only penal and administrative sanctions enforced which hit rather those who were made scapegoats for what had happened than those who were really guilty.”