"Kill Every Jew!"

So ruthless is Rumanian public opinion where Jews are concerned that the genial attitude of King Carol since his restoration has seemed to the Hebrew community almost too good to be true (TIME, June 23). Last week His Majesty followed up an earlier protestation of "love for my Jewish subjects" by exerting pressure on the Minister of Interior. Forthwith the Ministry's Chef de Cabinet, M. Tarfoianu, famed Rumanian Jew-baiter, was dismissed from his post. Jews continued to rejoice that during his protracted exile King Carol took a Jewish mistress.

Suddenly, however, Rumanian public opinion reasserted itself last week. In Transylvania and Bukovina peasant mobs sacked and burned Jewish homes in the countryside, then grew bolder, began loot- ing Jewish shops.

Troops hastily ordered out from Bucharest found a large party of Jew-baiters barricaded at Recege. Although ordered by the Minister of War to "shoot if necessary to restore order" the soldiers and their officers knew better, held their fire.

Above their barricade the truculent peasants raised a banner. "We Will Kill Every Jew In Transylvania and Buko-vina!" Presently in Bucharest a young anti-Semite forced his way into the Min- istry of Interior, shot acting Minister Constantin Angelescu in the hip, neck, head--perhaps fatally.

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