No action has been taken against anyone concerned in the devastation of the Jassy synagogue on March 23rd., and it appears as if the Government does not intend to enforce any further sanctions beyond the suppression of the Iron Guard organisation, ex-Senator Horia Carp, complains in an editorial appearing in the “Curierul Israelit”, the organ of the Union of Roumanian Jews.
Professor Jorga, the man of high morality and lofty culture, has kept silent, he writes. Only the official Prime Minister has spoken and what he has said is that everyone who, on any grounds whatever will disturb the peace of the land will find himself opposed by a Government which is determined to maintain order. “Everyone who will disturb the peace!” ex-Senator Carp exclaims. Why “will”? Why not punish also those who have already disturbed the public peace, those who a few days ago committed acts of vandalism in Jassy? We have heard this “will be punished” from other Governments in other Parliaments. But what we want is the punishment to-day and immediately of those who have been guilty of these excesses, not warnings about what will happen to them if they do it again in the future.
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