Professor Cuza was to-day again treated as the buffoon of the Chamber when Professor Jorga, the Rector of Bucharest University, who is the leader of intellectual life in Roumania, pulled him up in the course of a speech he was delivering on the tribune and called out: You are poisoning our youth. You are a foolish, childish man. You are the evil spirit of Roumania. The Government ought to arrest you, instead of arresting your misguided student followers whom you lead to their shame.
Deputy Dr. Lupu, the leader of the Independent Peasants’ Party, and a former Vice-Premier, twitted Cuza with making the same speech every time. M. Madgearu, the Minister of Agriculture, thereupon threw the Chamber into laughter by remarking that Cuza was always plagiarising himself. The Deputies cheered Jorga, Lupu, and Madgearu, and kept up a constant stream of jeering and whistling, preventing Cuza for some time from continuing his speech.
When he was finally able to make himself heard again, Professor Cuza spoke of the wounded ex-soldiers who had fought for Roumanian greatness. Do you include the large numbers of Jewish wounded soldiers who also fought for Roumanian greatness, several Deputies interjected. There were no Jews wounded in the war Cuza said. “Lots of Jews fought in the war and were wounded”, one Deputy shouted. I am not speaking here on behalf of the Jews, Professor Cuza retorted.
Professor Cuza is nothing more than a buffoon, whose only ability is to set the Chamber into a roar of laughter, because of his foolish statements, the papers comment this evening.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
