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means of forcing them to leave…have been found.” 171 The law, however, was
subsequently ruled unconstitutional by Rumanian courts.
Eighty-two year old Alexander Cuza, Minister without Portfolio, announced plans
for an international anti-Semitic conference in which the Jewish Question would be
studied as a world-wide problem. The issue needed to be “confronted frankly and
realistically” and the only workable solution was the creation of a “Jewish nation” in
which the Jews could be concentrated in one location, left to “work out their own
destiny.” Palestine would be excluded from consideration as it belonged to the Arabs but
Madagascar (located 240 miles off the coast of East Africa) offered promise as it was a
possession of France which “soon must solve its own very acute Semitic problem.” 172
Sixty-eight year old Patriarch of the Rumanian National Orthodox Church Miron
Christea (who later succeeded Goga as Premier) had earlier warned, during August 1937,
that Jews were the cause of an “epidemic of corruption and social unrest” that endangered
the “spiritual treasures” of the Rumanian Nation. Defense against the threats of the Jews
was both a “national and patriotic duty.” 173
In addition, he believed, the nation should be
expunged of “these parasites who suck Rumanian and Christian blood.” 174 A number of
anti-Jewish riots occurred during late 1937 and early 1938 in Bucharest and outlying
171 Adrien Thierry, French Minister, Romania, to the Foreign Ministry, no. 46, December 31, 1938, MAE
SDN I M 1818, 111-12 cited in Caron, Uneasy Asylum 173.
172 Tampa Tribune, January 23, 1938, 6.
173 Schneiderman, ed., American Jewish Yearbook Review of the Year 5698, 283.
174 Howard Morley Sachar, A History of the Jews in the Modern World (Vintage eBooks) available from
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