A resolution requesting President Roosevelt to intercede in behalf of the Jews and other minorities threatened by Rumanian edicts has been introduced in the Senate by James J. Davis, Republican, of Pennsylvania.
Senator Davis announced today that he was hopeful of obtaining hearings on the resolution before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The resolution follows: “Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to communicate to the Senate, if not incompatible with public interest, any information in his possession concerning prospective edicts against Jews and other minorities in Rumania recently reported to have become the announced program of the Rumanian Government and to use his good offices to obtain a peaceful settlement of proposed threats to the well-being of these minorities.”
In introducing the resolution last Saturday, Senator Davis declared that “the possible expulsion of a million Jews from Rumania would be a matter of such importance as to cause unwanted international complications.”
He asserted that the hundreds of Rumanians living in Pennsylvania deplored the measures of the new government. The Senator recalled America’s “honorable tradition of moral championship of persecuted minorities.” In this connection, he referred to the statements of Secretary of State Hamilton fish in 1872, and Secretary of State John Hay in 1902 regarding oppression of Jews in Rumania, and a House resolution in 1913 on the subject.
Mr. Davis also advised the Senate that William Sirovich, New York Democrat, had introduced a resolution in the house with the same purpose as his resolution (reported in JTA NEWS, Jan. 7).
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