The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-24

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 EthnologistS also doubt thonous Rumanian race, sir the mainroads of the migrati has been a melting pot of Asiatic and European nations, including Scythians, Vandals, Tartars, Cum enes, Turks, Slavs, Armenians, Greeks and Jews.
 As one of the first moves in the new program, Rumania hopes to get underway this year mass emigration of Jews who form be- tween 1 and per cent of the population and are preponderant in finance, commerce and industry. also in many liberal professions such as medicine and law.
 Most of the Jewish lawyers were expelled from the bar associations under the short lived regime of Cctavian Goga early last year. Of $500 physicians in Rumania at the close of last year, only 4,200 were ethnical Rumanians, the ma jority of the remainder being Jews, according to recent statement by the prime minister to the king. According to another statement, 43 per cent of Rumania's drug stores are operated by Jews.
 "Just Measures" Vouchsafed
 By just and equitable measures" the government expects eventually to free the country of Jews.
 An important step in this di- rection was enforcement of a de- cree, passed under Goga, providing for revision of citizenship docu- ments of all Rumanian Jews. By this revision many thousands lost their rights as Rumanian citizens and became "heimatlos" (home- less). Estimates as to their number vary between 50,000 and 250,O0O, the latter figure being quoted in Zionist circles. Because a large percentage of the Jews affected appealed against the decisions of the courts, and because the major ity of these appeals are still pend- ing, it will be long time before final figures are available. It is ex- pected that up to 80,000, or about 20 per cent of Rumanias Jews eventually may become outcasts.
 Eumania repeatedly has an- nounced it's intention to cooperate in an international solution of the Jewish prblem. It insists that the powers possessing colonies should absorb a large number of Ru- manian Jews in their overseas pos sessions. But even if such demand is compiled with, the arduous prob lem of financing mass emigration still remains to be solved. Several proposals, made in this respect here, rave been found to be im- practicable.
 Few Gain Citizenship
 Rumanias xenophobia is not re- stricted to Jews-it applies to for eigners of Gentle ancestry as well. According to "Currentul," the ministry of Justice accepted only 228 of 3,245 applications for nat urelization of foreigners in 1888. Although unemployment is prac- tically non existent in Rumania, commercial enterprises are not permitted to have more than 20 per cent of foreigners on their staffs. There is a strong tendency to reduce this to 10 per cent.
 The government alleges that foreigners are "less honest" than Rumanians. Tn his address to the king, the prime minister stated that in 1888, of l60 offenses against cus- toms regulations 94 were committed by firms, conducted by foreigners, the latter also forming a 6l per cent majority of offenders against taxation laws. For smuggling, fines amounting to 1,050,000,000 were im- posed upon aliens compared to 100.- GOO 900 lei only on natives. (The unit of exchange is z of a U. s. cent) In 2,600 trails for offenses against regulations dealing with alcohol traffic 96 per cent of the delin- Quents were foreigners and Jews according to the prime minister Steaua Romano, a large British controlled oil company, is under accusation of having defraudetl the treasury of many millions of lei by contraventions against the #4GSuAaeAOAio Oil bAAC slaAAAO VI lOl eign currencies.
 Jewish Enterprise Apparent
 Jewish enterprise and foreign capital largely are responsible for the development of Rumanias in- dustry and trade.
 In his New Years speech, King Carol said that Rumania possesses perhaps the greatest natural re- sources of European countries, but that these riches are still latent" to c great extent.
 To develop them, the country will need foreign capital. The king himself in the speech made in Guildhall, when he visited London last November, invited foreign capital. This invitation seems hardly compatible with the present aim of eliminating foreigners from active participation in the coun- try's economic life.
 That very serious Jewish prob- lem exists in Rumania, where the Jews have concentrated in cities and towns, no student of Ru- fuania's history and conditions