the hospitals they "would be tolerated" as
doctors--and nearly a hundred of these doctors died on active service.

The better class of Roumanians, such as Take Jonescu, is opposed to such
methods--he was therefore charged with being in the pay of the Jews,
although he was a wealthy man (a very successful barrister) whom
politics made poorer. It remains to be seen whether the
Roumanians--whose position with regard to the Jews is, partly through
their own fault, not without peril--will be willing to put into effect
those reforms to which the Supreme Council compelled them to subscribe.
The Article in question will probably become a moral weapon, since the
Roumanians regard themselves as on a higher level than the Balkan
peoples, and will not desire that continual complaints should be made
against them. One does not expect their prejudices and their
apprehensions to be suddenly renounced--instead of judging each case
individually, the railway administration, after the Government had
agreed that the Jews _en bloc_ could become citizens, barred them _en
bloc_ from that particular service by requiring that candidates should
present their certificates of baptism. The Agricultural Syndicates have
also introduced a statute which limits their organizations to Roumanian
citizens who profess the Christian religion. Gradually--one hopes, for
the sake of their country--the Roumanians will bring themselves to adopt
a less timorous spirit, and to acknowledge that it is more dangerous to
the Fatherland if a Jew as such is prevented than if he is permitted to
hold the office of street-sweeper. From such lowly public offices, or
from that of University Professor, no citizen should be excluded on
religious grounds or admitted to them "by exceptional concession." And
if a Jewish cab-driver at Bucharest is so severely flogged by his
passengers outside the chief railway-station that he succumbs in the
hospital to his injuries--a fate that overtook one Mendel Blumenthal, a
man fifty-three years of age, in September 1919--one trusts that a
newspaper article asking for an inquiry will henceforward not be
censored. "It is true," said Dr. Vaida-Voevod, then the Prime Minister,
"that the Jews still evince some reluctance to assimilate intellectually
with our people or to identify their interests with those of the
Roumanian State. But goodwill should be shown on both sides, and the
overtures should be reciprocal." Thanks very largely to the former