participants in the students’ excesses remain to a large extent unpunished, encourages the Cuzists, says Senator Ebner.
Senator Ebner also finds that the Roumanian government did very little for the Jews during the past year except to provide a small subvention for Jewish religious needs, amounting to 10 lei per head, which is ridiculously small in comparison with that for other religious groups. He pointed out, too, that the 4,000,000 lei subvention to the Jewish private schools was about seventeen percent of the 25,000,000 lei allotted for private minorities schools. Both of these subventions are to be paid out within the next few days.
The government’s promise to create a Jewish state gymnasium and a state secondary school have not been fulfilled, declared Senator Ebner. The government’s attitude to Zionists, however, is friendly, he said, pointing to the warm welcome accorded to Nahum Sokolow.
Discussing the Jewish policy in Roumania, Senator Ebner said that it strove to fight anti-Semitic propaganda by all possible means and to remind the government of its duty to secure order, and through the Jewish representatives in Parliament to demand energetic suppression of the Cuzists’ incitements, to further endeavor to withhold the Jewish Communities Law from coming into effect, to develop propaganda for united Jewish communities and also for calling a Jewish communities congress.
The Jewish school policy in Roumania, is, Senator Ebner pointed out, first a demand for no Saturday classes, second a grant of equality rights.
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