"Impudent!"

Last week's Jew-baiting by the new Rumanian Government of Premier Octavian Goga:

P: Minister of Public Works George Cuza warned Rumanian health insurance companies to discharge all Jewish doctors employed on their boards.

P: By decree all Jews were forbidden to sell salt or gasoline (Jewish liquor licenses have already been canceled).

P: Two newspapers published by Jews were suppressed.

P: All industrial concerns were ordered to submit at once to the Government lists of their employes, of whom in the future at least 90% must be non-Jewish Rumanians.

However, despite Government pressure and the urging of a small group of gentile lawyers, the Rumanian bar association valiantly rejected a motion to disbar all Jewish lawyers in Rumania.

On a visit that he was careful to call "unofficial," U. S. Minister Franklin Mott Gunther reminded Premier Goga of the adverse U. S. reaction to the anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler. With greater finesse Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Ostrovsky informed the Rumanian Foreign Office that his presence was "no longer useful," and he wished to start home to Moscow within ten days.

For both these protests Premier Goga had an answer. Under the nose of the U. S. Minister he waved a sheaf of protests cabled by U. S. Jewish organizations. "These," he cried, "are merely impudent!" To Mr. Ostrovsky, the Foreign Office replied with a public announcement: "The Rumanian Government would in no way object to the departure of the Soviet Ambassador at an even earlier date."

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