The Roumanian government will pay damages to the victims of the anti-Semitic disturbances in Borscha, Vama and Suceava immediately after the investigations into these disturbances have been completed, the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was assured today by Dr. Alexander Vayda Voevod, minister of the interior, following a three hour interview.
After pointing out that the Jewish sufferers from anti-Semitism will get government assistance as they did at Klausenberg in the past, Dr. Vayda Voevod pointed out that anti-Semitism in Roumania usually increases and grows whenever the country suffers from an economic depression as it is now. Under these circumstances the minister of the interior feels that the Jews abroad should aid in obtaining credits for Roumania because this indirectly aids in the safety of the Jews in Roumania.
Giving definite assurances that stricter measures will be used in the future to guarantee the safety of the Jewish population, Dr. Vayda Voevod, who has been granted what amounts to almost dictatorial powers by the Cabinet in dealing with anti-Semitic disturbances, said that the government is determined to suppress and punish with the greatest severity every movement that disturbs the internal peace of the country and of course the anti-Semitic movement which creates danger for the safety of the Jews.
Emphasizing that the present anti-Semitic outbreaks are stimulated by the Liberal Party which he charges is seeking to discredit the present government in order to regain its lost political power, Dr. Vayda Voevod declared that “the Roumanian people are not anti-Semitic. They are very friendly towards their Jewish neighbors. Excesses, however, occurred after the election of Professor Cuza to parliament.”
Cuza’s election, Dr. Vayda Voevod believes, was efficiently supported by the Liberal Party. He said that he has now undertaken energetic means to prevent a repetition of the outbreaks. He pointed out that he has issued orders to arrest every one guilty of anti-Semitic propaganda, adding that the military would be used wherever necessary.
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