Prominent Rumanians attended a celebration of the 80th birthday of Prof. Alexander Cuza, anti-Semitic Nationalist leader, last night in the Atheneum, Bucharest’s largest lecture hall. Loudspeakers brought the speeches to an overflow crowd of 20,000 in the streets.
Patriarch Miron Christea, opening the meeting, praised Prof. Cuza’s racial activities. Metropolitan Archbishop Baron Vartolomeus and other speakers, including members of the Rumanian Academy of Sciences and Arts, newspaper editors, leading lawyers and physicians, praised Prof. Cuza’s anti-Semitic movement and declared adherence to it.
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