Loyal Transylvanina Jews must be granted “full and equal rights as citizens,” declared Emanuel Marcovies, chief of the Transylvania Party, addressing a conference at Nagyvarad.
He declared it would be unfair to apply restrictions of the Hungarian anti-Semitic law to Jews “who fought on our side during 22 years of oppression” and who were imprisoned or otherwise persecuted for Hungarian nationalism during the Rumanian regime. He added, however, that “we alone, without any outside interference, must decide which elements of the Transylvanian Jewish population have been good Hungarians.”
It is understood the Transylvanian Party will go on record as opposing application of anti-Semitic legislation to Jews who were members of the party in the past or who contributed time and money to the Hungarian revisionist cause. The party will not, however, defend Jews who belonged to Zionist groups or did not cooperate with the Hungarian revisionists during the Rumanian regime, it is understood.
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