Sirovitch, in Congress Resolution, Urges U.S. Intervention in Roumania

Calls Upon President to Sever Diplomatic Relations if Persecutions of Jews Do Not Cease (Jewish Paily Bulletin)

A resolution calling upon President Coolidge to sever diplomatic relations with Roumania in the event of Ronmania’s failure to stop the persecution of Jews, was introduced in the House by Congressman William I. Siroviteh, yesterday.

The resolution read: “Whereas the Kingdom of Roumania. despite its solema guarantees to the League of Nations and pledged assurances to the sovereign powers that it would shelter all its subjects under the law without regard to race or creed and grant its ethnic and religions minorities equal access to and participation in the benefits and privileges of its institutions, the Government of the Kingdom of Roumania has again demenstrated its supineness, incompetence, and harbarism in the severe, inhuman attacks on the person and property of those of its subjects who are not adherents of its dominant church and in protecting and permitting the retention in strategic positions of anthority of leaders who sponsor and authorize these violations of the natural rights and relitious liberties of large classes of Roumanian subjects or citizens and

Whereas these appaling onslaughts on life, property and liberty in contemptuous defiance of the treaties of organized humanity are but a recurrence of those pernicious policies of Roumania which in the past have shocked the conscience of the civilized world and evoked from the government of the United States a solemn indictment of the Roumanian government, formulated by that great American Secretary of State, the late John Hay, and whereas the historic policy of the government of the United States enunciated on that occasion thereafter became the established precedent for the guidance of these statesmen in international affairs, and the harbarous brutalities of a like nature under the regime of the late Czar of Russia resulted in our abrogation of all treaty relations with the Russian Empire and whereas the failure of the Roumanian Government to protect the group of its subjects who constitute a racial and religious minority in these policies within its territorial confines in accordance with the requirements of the Roumanian constitution and the covenants of international treaties, stigmatizes it as an outlaw in the family of nations and demands its arraignment before the bar of public opinion of the world.

“Therefore, be it resolved that the House of Representatives of the United States do respectfuhy petition Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States to demand that the Roumanian Government grant equal political protection to all subjects under its jurisdiction and above all at once to stop the barbarous and cruel treatment of the innocent Jewish citizens and protect their life and property in accordance with the covenants of existing treaties between the Kingdom of Roumania and the Government of the United States.

“Further be it resolved that in the event of failure of the government of Roumania to comply with the humanitarian demand of the people of the United States, liberty loving as we are, that the House of Representatives of the United States with the Senate concurring, do hereby sever diplomatic relations between the government of the United States and government of the Kingdom of Roumania.”