Former Senator Traian Bratu, Dean of the University of Iasi, was stabbed tonight by three students who waylaid him as he was leaving the university. He is in a critical condition, the Havas News Agency reported.
Political motives were believed behind the attack on the Dean, in as much as he had on several occasions taken a strongly disapproving attitude toward extreme right activities of groups in the student body.
Bratu was president of the senate during the regime of the National Peasant Party.
Following continued agitation between Right and Left parties, the state of siege and censorship established after the assassination of Premier Ion G. Duca by members of the Iron Guard was prolonged today for another six months.
The Government will demand full powers from Parliament to assure the maintenance of order and repression of extreme right agitation during the parliamentary vacation between April and November, it was said.
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