Hohenzollern Dictates

In a "constitutional monarchy"decrees of the Monarch are valid only when countersigned by a member of the Cabinet, but recently the Rumanian Constitution was scrapped (TIME, Feb. 21). Last week Carol von Hohenzollern was therefore able to play the Dictator so completely that he alone signed a decree making Rumania a "Corporative State."

Italy is the prototype of the "Corporative State," and Dictator Hohenzollern indicated that he would generally follow Il Duce's model.* Busy launching Rumania's new Constitution along Corporative lines last week. His Majesty paused to show approximately where he stands on Rumania's vexed Jewish question (TIME, Jan. 31, et ante). The new Constitution, it was announced, would give "equality before the law" to all ethnically pure Rumanians and also to "all people of other races who have lived for centuries on Rumanian soil," thus continuing the distinction made by Jew-baiting former Premier Goga between members of ancient Rumanian Jewish families and the great number of Jews who since the World War have crowded into Rumania as refugees. As another detail of his plan for a better Rumania, Dictator Hohenzollern also announced the abolition of trial by jury.

* In a Corporative State members of the parliament represent not constituencies but classes of citizens, factory workers, farmers, employers, physicians, etc. who form guilds to elect them.

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