BRITISH HINT TO RUMANIA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20929, 7 January 1938, Page 7

BRITISH HINT TO RUMANIA

REMINDER OF TREATY OBLIGATIONS

RIGHTS OF MINORITIES STRESSED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 5. Owing to uneasiness regarding the Jews in Rumania the British Government has Instructed the Ambassador in Bucharest (Sir Reginald Hoare) to take the earliest opportunity of reminding the Rumanian Government in the friendliest fashion of the interest Great Britain has always taken in the Minorities Treaty which was signed at Paris in 1919, and of Which Rumania is a Signatory. The treaty guarantees racial, religious and linguistic minorities political rights and religious freedom.

Tht Bucharest Correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph" states that every day brings more violent anti-Semitic measures. The Minister of Public Works has Issued the following decree: “As it has been established that many Jews employ young Rumanian girls as servants with the intention of using them for the white slave traffic, no Jew may employ non-Jewlsh servants under forty years of age.” Dozens more Jewish newspapers in the provinces have been closed down. A run oh the National Savings Bank followed an unfounded rumour that the Government intended to close the bank. The Government has taken measures to end the panic.