NEW CABINET

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 13

NEW CABINET

CHANGE IN BUMANIA PATRIARCH AS PREMIER MILITARY IN CONTROL By Te I Ait? ran b, --'Press Association—Copyright (i'e'.'fijfcd 3*tbscary 1?., fiijE©. p.jj.y LGKIKU-.'. :o ii A Dies&itge i'i'om Jiiivlitireisfi ktaiea that tho ilumanian Government under M. Goga has resigned. Monsignor Miron Cristea, Patriarch of Rumania and head of the Orthodox Chu?;vh, hvj agreed to form a Cabinet;. It will include seven former Prime Ministers.

The British United Press correspondent at Bucharest says a decree has been signed by King Carol and the new Prime Minister placing the civil administration throughout Rumania under military control.

The Bucharest correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, in an earlier message, said that King Carol, after the acceptance of M. Goga's resignation, gave an audience to Dr. Maniu, Democratic leader of the National Peasant Party, who has not seen the King since 1932 because King Carol broke his promise not to bring back Madame Lupescu.

Other Leaders Seen The King saw many other political leaders, indicating a desire to form a representative Cabinet. The Juridical Committee's decision that the Royal decree ordering Jews to prove their citizenship under penalty of denationalisation violates the Constitution dealt tho Goga Cabinet a severo blow. The decree violated the constitutional guarantee of full equality to all citizens by singling out Jews for unfavourable treatment, and making it possible to denationalise the country's 750,000 Hebrews. All the Goga Cabinet's anti-Semitic measures were automatically invalidated by the Juridical Committee's declaration, which is still subject to censorship. It was a fatal blow to the unpopular minority of the Fascist dictatorship.' Cabinet's XTctenabls Position

King Carol could nt>v maintain a Cabinet against which nine-tenths of the people voted at the last election. Moreover, M. Goga found it hopeless to apply, in this backward country where Jews control 80 per cent of the commerce, measures not feasible even in Germany. France and OsHychoslovakiii stopped assisting Rumanian ioarmament and threatened to withdraw credits, while Russia, with the prospect of Germany obtaining Rumania's vast output of oil and grain, withdrew her Minister.

The anti-Semitic decree was a pretext for the immediate expulsion of Jews from many professions. NonJewish lawyers in Bucharest and other centres prevented Jewish counsel pleading by beating them and throwing them into the streets.

Engineering, medical and other professions took similar measures, while university students seized and severely beat male and .female Jewish students, daring Jews to resume work in medical, legal and other professions.