The Rumanian Bar Association will no longer expel Jewish lawyers en masse, it announced today, but will revise individually the registrations of Jewish attorneys and expel those whose papers are not in order. Although all Jewish lawyers are graduates of Rumanian universities, they will be subjected to an examination to test their knowledge of the Rumanian language.
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