BISHOP VARTOLOMEI RAMNIC, INFLUENTIAL ORTHODOX CHURCH DIGNITARY, CHARGED TODAY THAT ALL WARS AND REVOLUTIONS WERE CAUSED BY THE JEWS, BUT THAT THE VICTIMS WERE ALWAYS CHRISTIANS. WRITING IN THE NATIONALIST NEWSPAPER, PORUNCA VREMI, THE BISHOP URGED THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM RUMANIA AND THE CONFISCATION OF THEIR PROPERTY.
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