(Communication to the Editor)
Sir:
My attention has been called to telegram from Bucharest published in your issue of February 12, to the effect that the Bucharest University Senate and the Court of Appeal had shortened the terms of punishment of the students found guilty in the anti-Jewish riots in Transylvania.
In order to establish the exact fact of the case, I cabled the above news to my Government and to-day I have received a telegram, which is quoted below in translation:
“In reply to your telegram, the University Senate has not reduced any punishment. The Jassy Court of Appeal has reduced two or three terms of punishment. The Bucharest Courts of Cassation and Justice have rejected the students’ appeal, while at Cluj the Court Martial continues giving sentences and has brought to trial several other students. The Jews in America should rest assured that it is not in our interest to leave unpunished the Oradea Mare riots and that the Government will see that real sanctions are applied. They must not be alarmed by every little incident and all kinds of rumors but must have confidence in the decisions of the Government.”
In order to correct any wrong impression which the above news as telegraphed from Bucharest may have conveyed to your readers as to the attitude of the Roumanian Government in this connection, I should feel obliged if you would publish this letter in your next issue.
Yours very truly, George Cretziano, Roumanian Minister.
Legatiunea Regala a Romaniei, Washington, D. C. February 21, 1928
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