The Joint Foreign Committee issues the following statement today.
“Roumanian newspapers publish a telegram from Berne, dated February 12th, in which an alleged statement of the Roumanian Minister in Switzerland, M. Petrascu-Comnene, is reported, to the effect that all the information published by the foreign press concerning the anti-Jewish disorders in Roumania is inaccurate, and that both M. Colban, the Director of the Minorities Section in the League of Nations, and M. Victor Jacobsohn, representing the Zionists, who have lately visited Roumania, have convinced themselves that ‘the attacks on Roumania were unjustifiable’.
“The Joint Foreign Committee have made inquiries in competent quarters, and they are able to state positively that neither M. Colban nor M. Jacobsohn has expressed any opinion regarding the situation in Roumania or the attacks on the Jews.”
Mayor Walker has accepted the offer of George W. and Walter W. Naumberg, sons of the late Elkan Naumberg, who donated the bandstand in Central Park, to continue this Summer the series of concerts in the park started many years ago by their father.
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