Dr. Filderman, the President of the Union of Roumanian Jews, speaking with the J.T.A. representative here, complained that the agreement between the Union and the Jorga Government for the Parliamentary elections had been broken off for the same reason as the agreement which the Union had concluded with the Maniu Government, because Dr. Mayer Ebner and Messrs. Thecdor Fischer, Joseph Fischer, and Michael Landau, the members of the Club of Jewish Deputies in the last Parliament had done all they possibly could to get the pact broken off. In 1928, he said, we concluded a pact with the Maniu Government based on guarantees to give effect to the Jewish demands. These gentlemen, however, went to M. Maniu and told him that they had unlimited faith in the Declaration of Alba Julia, and were willing to enter into a pact without demanding any special guarantees. History has now repeated itself. After we announced in the press that we had concluded a pact with the Jorga Government on the ground of programme demands and guarantees, these same people went to the Government and argued that the Union of Roumanian Jews was a fictitious body and it was only the intelligence of its leaders which created the impression that it was a power. They demanded that the Government should give them three of the promised seats. This demand was rejected, but their attitude encouraged the Government to break its word to us. The Government representative offered us the lowest places on the list. We declared that this was a breach of the agreement and refused the offer as unworthy of the Jewish population. Now the leaders of the Jewish National Party claim that they have been vindicated in their contention that the Jewish demands cannot be realised by means of pacts with Roumanian Parties, and that there is no way out except a minorities bloc. I regard this view as wrong as ever, Dr. Filderman said. The Liberal Party kept the promise which it gave us on the Communities Law, the Co-operative Law, State subsidies for the Jewish faith, State rights for the Jewish schools, etc. The Maniu and Jorga Governments, too, would have stood by the programme on which agreement was reached if the people of the Jewish Party had not sabotaged our agreement with them.
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