The Rumanian Government was reported by the Bucharest correspondent of The Times today to be adopting a more lenient policy on the Jews, attributed to a stiffening of the democracies’ stand and a fear that persecution of the Jews might upset Rumania’s economic system. Recent speeches of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Britain and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet of France served as one influence for relaxation of the anti-Semitic policy, the correspondent said.
A recent Rumanian Government proclamation was said to state that “other minorities” — meaning the Jews — had answered the call of the Reconstruction Party and would be treated as equal with the rest of the nation. The Government was also reported to have decided to release several hundred Austrian and Sudeten Jewish refugees, arrested for illegally crossing the Rumanian frontier, and to turn them over to Jewish families to be cared for pending arrangements for their re-emigration as soon as possible.
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