(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The shame of anti-Jewish persecutions in Roumania will soon be blotted out, Haljean, vice-speaker of the Roumanian parliament predicted in an address he delivered at the exercises when the cornerstone for the new Jewish hospital was laid.
The hospital is being erected on ground purchased by the Joint Distribution Committee. It will contain 400 beds and several laboratories for Jewish medical students, who find it difficult to study medicine at the universities. The cost of the hospital building will be $30,000, it was estimated.
Mr. Haljean stated that he expresses the opinion of Minister of the Interior Duca that anti-Semitic excesses such as those recorded in the last few years will not be tolerated in the future. Mayor Barbu, and Dr. Bernhard Kahn, European director of the Joint Distribution Committee, also delivered addresses.
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