As a result of the strike of the students of Jassy University in protest against the action of the government in suppressing the anti-Semitic riots there, the Roumanian government’s sincere desire to protect the Jews of Roumania is now being severely tested, according to an editorial in the “Day” of December 20th.
“Until now the Roumanian government has been very kind to the anti-Semitic students,” says the editorial. “It allowed them to hold their congress, although it knew very well that such a congress is only an opportunity for students to conduct their anti-Semitic propaganda. The government also allowed anti-Semitic professors to carry on their work of incitement in the universities.
“Now when the Roumanian student body has come out against the government itself, the government can not remain any longer as indifferent as formerly. It will have to adopt stern measures and show that it is not ready to allow itself to be dictated to by young block-heads who hate the Jewish citizens of Roumania.
“If the Roumanian government will adopt such stern measures against its own student body, it will have met, to a certain extent, the test which is being placed before it now and Jewish public opinion will at last have an opportunity to convince itself of the real attitude of the Roumanian government towards the safety of Jewish life and property in Roumania. No assurances on the part of the Roumanian ambassador here to Dr. Cyrus Adler, the new president of the American Jewish Committee, will mean anything as long as the government itself will not show by its acts what it is ready to do to protect the Roumanian Jews.”
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