The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1919-09-17
For over an hour we spoke concern
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cuiieu the hluS uttch'ioH W tue tTuslc
plight of the. Roumanian Jews. to the
many promises which from time to
time had been made that the Jews
would be granted equal rights, and
to the fact that all these promises have
never been kept. I stated that the
present law decree which purports to
grant the Jews equal rights was not
satisfactory. 1t excludes all Jews who
were not born in Roumania raised
seventeen objections against the law,
and attempted to show that the Jew
ish question is not completely solved
thereby. 1 remarked that under this
law. two of the most prominent ROu-
Inanian Jews cannot become citizens
The first is the venerable Rabbi DIR.
Beck, who for over forty years has
been Rabbi in bucharest; and the sec
ond. the distinguished scholar. Rabbi
DIR. Numerower, also Serving the colln-
try for over twenty-five years-and
that tens of thousands of immigrant
Jews find themselves in the same pO-
sitiOn
Coming to cases of persecution. told
the King that the military tribunals
treat Jewish soldiers brutally and
cruelty. told him of the case of Isaac
CiObotaru. who was sentenced to death
on the testimony of. nm under-Officer.
whom the court itself arrested in the
course of the trial for perjury. y high
or court annulled the sentence, but
trlal VIII ne requireu' also ion" 'he
King about the soiiier Kaufman VINO
was tried t"sether WIN TWO ho"hiahiah
SOLDIERS. all Ior the same oiiehse. Inc
hotmahiah souiers were sentenced 10
iNe years IN prisoh' WINE 'he DE" was
gwen the Ideath pt'hai'!' WHICH 'he
kihe hihseii hau co1iiA"''n 10 tweh-
~ years imprisonment l to'a MN
That thousands OF such cases exist.
Further 1 recalled the disgraceful
death of the Jew, Nacht, of iassi.
who was shot while be was being led
w asSo - h'ii'Ni "a ot'sNs
such incidents with which I was IA
miliar. Speaking Of the way in which
Jewish soldiers had fought for the coun-
try. I declared that In no army In the
world would such rhas,efui orders bc
permissible aS those which General
Presan had given concerning Jews !;
nor would such openly anti-Semitic
manifesfoes be published as were given
out by Captain Chitulescu.
All of the troubles which the Jews
of Roumania have suffered and are
still suffering. I pictured for him in
moving words, and finally appealed to
him 10 make an end of them. He
listened with the deepest attention. He
answered part of my accuse tiOns-tried
to excuse others-made certain state
mcnts and ended with promise. When
we finished. asked permission to pub
lish our conversation The King asked
that write an account of it and sub
init it to him, and after he had read it.
I would receive nm official statement.
I wrote n detailed report of all that we
had said about the Jewish situat tiOn.
and submitted it.
A few weeks later, when returned
to Bucharest, after my tripsthru ROu-
mania. Kessa rabia. and other regions.
I received letter with the permission
to publish the following official state
Ipept of the King:
His Majesty was kind enough to re-
ceive in audience the American jour
ralist Mr.. Leo wolfson. In an in
terview which lasted more than an
hour, all questions of the day were
btoucbed unon and especially the Jew