The Daily News Letter

for the Jews of this country also a peaceful modus to live together with the local population.”

And then, plunging into an “explanation” of the Jewish problem:

“Those who thought that I would deliver an anti-Semitic address were mistaken. I am not an anti-Semite. Anti-Semitism is a social appearance which is perceived by all sociologists and writers who deal with the Jewish question.

“The Jewish problem has not arisen today, it is as old as the Jewish people,” he declared. “If this problem has become more acute in our day, it is to be traced back to the occurrences in Germany. I appeal to the Jews of the whole country, to the Jews of Judaised Jassy, that they should not fight against the idea of proportionalism, but that they should once and for all realize that proportionalism is indispensable.”

This, then, is the Vaida-Vccvod program. The Jews of Rumania justifiably regard it with suspicion and distrust, especially when they recognize so many of their bitter enemies among the ranks of its supporters. As they have fought the numerus clausus in the past, so must they fight it under the guise of numerus valachius accuse me of doing, but if to carmarks a definite infringement of their constitutional and treaty rights and would create new distinctions and classes in the nation’s citizenship.

A final word about the recent disorders here. While these cannot be laid directly at the door of Dr. Vaida-Voevod, his focussing of attention on racial issues is in good part responsible for the awakening of the temporarily dormant active anti-Semites of the Iron Guard and Cuzist stripe. The disorders, which at no time took on serious proportions, were really the acts of hooliganism rather than political manifestations.