The new Rumanian Government will not yield the “slightest part” of its anti-Semitic program, it was asserted today by Prof. Alexander Cuza, minister without portfolio and coleader with Premier Octavian Goga of the anti-Semitic pro-Nazi National Christian Party.
Cuza’s stand was made public in a statement in Porunca Vremi, party organ, presumably to dissipate an impression that the new Cabinet will move slowly with its anti-Jewish program.
Serving further to dispel such an impression were actions by Government offices and a statement by Nichifor Robu, anti-Semitic prefects of the Czernowitz province, center of a large Jewish population.
The Ministry of Public Health announced that Jewish doctors will be dismissed from the health department and replaced by Christian physicians. The ministry also ordered revision of medical diplomas obtained abroad since 1919, most of which are held by Jews compelled to study in foreign universities because of disorders and the numerous clauses at Rumanian schools.
The Premier’s office pressed the campaign to “Romanize” the nation’s newspapers, issuing a circular ordering all papers immediately to submit lists showing ethnical origin of all employes.
Total number of papers suppressed since accession of the Goga regime last month cannot as yet be ascertained, chiefly because the question has been left to discretion of local prefects, but Porunca Vremi estimates that in Bukovina province alone 14 Jewish-owned papers have been banned.
Curentul, Bucharest Nationalist daily, quotes a statement by Prefect Robu of Czernowitz in which he declares that the Government recognizes two divisions of minorities in Rumania. Robu lists in the first, “productive Christian Elements to whom the Government shows good will,” and in the second “the parasitic Jewish element for which elimination is the only solution.”
The Government denied that an order had been issued forbidding Jews to employ Christian servants, a measure which would ape one of the Nuremberg laws in Germany. Reports that National Christian storm troopers had been stationed in Government offices to bar entrance of Jews also were officially denied.
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