Polyglot Plea

Religious minorities in Rumania, reported long-suffering, will be relieved if Queen Marie heeds a petition handed last week to her U. S. Minister (George Cretziano) by representatives of 30,000 U. S. citizen-signatories.

The petition protested against the Rumanian government's supposed discrimination against Hungarians, Saxons and most especially Jews, living in territory which became Rumanian after the War.

The petitioners were polyglot, representing nearly all of the 27 religious denominations in the U. S. Some signatures: the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick of New York; the Rev. Edgar Y. Mullins, president of the Baptist World Alliance; Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army; Louis C. Cornish, vice president of the American Unitarian Association; William Cardinal O'Connell; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; the presidents of nine universities.