The question put in the House of Commons last week by Colonel Wedgwood on the Soroca affair has roused a great deal of comment in Roumania, and is being widely discussed in the press and in political circles.
The “Dimineatza” and the “Adeverul” recall in this connection that on October 10th., 1927, the “Neamul Romansse”, the organ of the Prime Minister, Professor Jorga”, Published an article by Professor Jorga, in which the present Premier wrote:
We have had an officer in Bessarabia put on trial for taking the liberty of shooting down people at the Dniester, and we seem to think that we are alone in the world, and that no one sees or hears us, what is happening in our country, and then we are astonished when we receive an indictment from England such as just arrived.
The situation in 1927 and now is analogous, the paper point out, only instead of an indictment from England we have had the question of Soroca raised in the British House of Common. But this time, Professor Jorga is Prime Minister, and his attitude is no longer the same that it was in 1927.
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