(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Government of the Dominion of Canada has reasons to believe that the question of the protection of Jewish minorities in Roumania is now being examined by the Secretariat of the League of Nations, according to O. D. Talion, Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs.
A resolution was forwarded by Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman in March, 1927 to the Prime Minister of Canada, W. L. MacKenzie King, asking him to make a protest through the League of Nations, inasmuch as Canada is a member of the League, following a mass meeting held in Toronto protesting against the Roumanian anti-Jewish excesses.
Under-Secretary Talion, replying in behalf of the Prime Minister, stated:
“I am directed by the Prime Minister to acknowledge receipt of your communication, of March 7, 1927, relative to the alleged situation of Jewish minorities in Roumania.
“The Council and the Assembly of the League of Nations have adopted a very definite procedure with regard to petitions in the matter of the protection of minorities. The Secretariat of the League has the duty of collecting information concerning the application of the Minorities Treaties. Petitions are to be addressed to the Secretary General of the League. They are declared admissable when they fulfil the five following conditions (a) they must have in view the protection of minorities in accordance with the treaties; (b) in particular they must not be submitted in the form of a request for the severance of political relations between the minority in question and the State of which it forms a part; (c) they must not emanate from an anonymous or unauthenticated source; (d) they must abstain from violent language; (e) they must contain information or refer to facts which have not recently been the subject of a petition submitted to the ordinary procedure.
“When a petition is considered receivable by the Secretariat, it is communicated to the interested Government for observations and circulated to members of the Council, together with the observations received, for information. The president, then, calls upon two of his colleagues to examine with him the documents thus submitted. The Minorities Committee decides whether or not to refer the question to the Council.
“A number of petitions have been dealt with in accordance with this practice, which is consistent with the Resolutions of the Council of the League passed in 1920, 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1926.
“We have reasons to believe that the question of the protection of Jewish minorities in Roumania is now being examined by the Secretariat of the League of Nations,” the communication concluded.
DR. JULIUS HALPERN, LABOR LEADER, PASSES AWAY AT 69
The funeral of Dr. Julius Halpern, labor leader and well known physician, who died late Saturday afternoon, was held on Sunday from the building of the “Jewish Daily Forward.” Abraham Cahan, editor of the “Forward” eulogized the late leader.
Dr. Halpern, who was 69, received his medical degree in 1881 from the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. He came to the United States in 1890 and since then had practiced in New York City, specializing in diseases of the lungs. He was a member of the Socialist Party and had frequently taken an active part in its work. He belonged to the Russian Medical Society, Academy of Medicine, American Medical Association and the National Tuberculosis Society. Dr. Halpern was chief of the Medical Advisory Board of the Workingmen’s Council.
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