20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

790 Adina Berciu-Drăghicescuare haunted by Communist gangs. 69 Although he obtained operationpermit from the Bulgarian authorities for the school year 1944-1945 also,the Ministry of National Education of Romania, charged the priest of theRomanian church in Giumaia, to handle the education of the 4 Romanianstudents because he could not pay for a school teacher for such a smallnumber of students.According to the Bulgarian government decree no. 127 issued on Maythe 30 th , 1945, the courses of the Romanian schools in Bulgaria were to beabolished. 70 Romania will close Romanian Institute in Sofia in September1947 ,when the Bulgarian government granted to it the advertising right.School teachers proposed for their salaries be received in leva and not inSwiss francs, but the Romanian state would not change its measure, “thesupport of these schools in a friend country, is not fair according to theR.P.R. Government”. 71In Greece, lived about 160,000 Romanians in 1941, in 3 compactgroups: Meglenia, Veria, Pind and in odd groups in Thesalia and Olimp,Seres-Cavalla and Thessaloniki. Romanian Vasile Stoica showed that theRomanian population in Greece was uneven with respect to the nationalconsciousness: the one in Pind and Veria areas with a strong Romanianfeeling, the one from cities, strongly influenced by the Greek environment,weaker to assimilation and the moved population "... this population hasnothing but a sense of ethnic cohesion, of confidence towards the ones ofRomanian language and of suspicion towards those of another language". 72The Romanian schools in Greece operated during the interwar periodon the basis of the tacit consensus between the Romanian and the Greekstates: "They had neither been state schools, nor schools supported bythe respective Romanian population, both cases provided by the minorityregime of the peace treaties, but by the Romanian state, throughout the tacitpermission of the Greek state. Without the Romanian financial state aid,schools would disappear, because the poor population lacks the support ofthe schools". 73Until 1923, the Ministry of Public Education has monitored the 26Romanian primary and 4 secondary schools in Greece throughout schoolreviewers. That year was also set up alongside with the Schools andChurches Administration from Greece a Permanent Administrative Council.69Ibidem, file 1529/1944, f. 43.70Ibidem, file 4336/1945, f. 42.71South Danube Romanians – Documents, 356.72A.N.I.C., Vasile Stoica fund, file I/158, f. 5.73Ibidem, fund of the Ministry of Public Instruction, file 1444/1941, f. 5.