The Denver Jewish news., 1919-12-03
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The Dignified Demands Of the
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cur lives and our fortunes.
Mr.. Bratiano: (continuing) That is
not what l meant. 1 did not mean
that you personally would suffer, or
that your life or your property would
he placed in peril. Moreover. I am
not acquainted with your conditions.
simply wanted to make it clear that
the government, being attacked. will
defend itself l wanted to state that
instead of friends we would become
enemies. / have never used such
means against my opponents. l only
wanted to say that your attitude 90
structs and will continue TO make i'm
possible any agreement between the
Eoumanians and the Jews. l intend
cd to do my utmost toward harmony.
hut / regret that l am constrained to
say that You have not as vet acquired
the least confidence IN us, and that
you are adopting an attitude of dis
trust
Dr. F.: Your Excellency, 1 was
born in this country. In the Rou-
nlanian schools, as child, l, learned
to admire whole-heartedly the great
deeds of our heroes. 1 have the kind
liest feelings toward ROumania. But
l was also born Jew and love my
people. And they have become even
dearer and more precious to me be
cause of the suffering they have had
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you as a Roumanian and as a Jew.
True, we have no confidence, ana
Furthermore we cannot have it. For
the last sixty years, we have been
continually deceived, and even now
we are being duped. All our past eN-
perience compels us Jews not to have
tiny confidence in promises and state
ments; if you, Mr.. Minister, wish to
do the right and honorable thing, you
must reckon with our lack of conf
dence as an incontrovertible fact and
factor, and you must thru positive
measures and actions work to over
come and remove that lack of conf
dcnce. Promises, and professions alone
have no longer any weight with us.
DR.. f: If you wish vote of alb
solute confidence from the Jews, and
an expression of faith that you will
settle the Jewish question, 1 must tell
you that you cannot get it. Not sin
gle Jew would give it 10 you.
Mr.. Bratiano: You keep on taking
the wrong attitude and do not seem
to be willing to take into consideration
what we suggest to you and what we
ask. 4 while ago, / asked that the
Jews should come out with public
declaration Of confidence in the state
and the government, and an express
sion of trust in our promise to bring
about a settlement of the Jewish ques-
ton, and your committee has declined
to do so. Then we asked that you
should request the representatives OF
| the Entente to arrange that the Jew
ish question should not be brought be
fore the Peace Conference, and again
YOU declined to do that-now how do
| you expect us to do what you want?
DIR. f: The declaration of conf
dence which you ask of us, | regret
to say we cannot give you, BECAUSE you
also show that you have no confidence
in us. We must play practical politics
When we will see that you are actu-
ally solving our problem, aid If the
manner in which you are doing it be
satisfactory to us, then we shall give
you our confidence 1 know that you
have a plan for settling the Jewish
question. Why do you keep it under
lock and key? Why do you not con
suit us about it? WhS do you not
show that you trust us! Concerning
your other question. the same answer
will apply.
Some other time. / shall relate other
discussions between the committee and
Mr.. Bratiano and other ministers.
Every Jew, believe, feels proud of
the dignified and noble attitude of the
Roumanian Jewish leaders and the
manner in which they represented the