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Hundreds of Rumanian Jews, scores of Hungarians and one U. S. citizen were jostled, mauled, pummeled, clubbed and vilified, last week, by rioting Nationalist students in the formerly Hungarian towns of Oradia Mare and Cluj...
...students who had come from Bucharest and Jassy to hold a Nationalist congress at Oradia Mare, later claimed that the riots started when two Jewish butchers poured a caldron of boiling water on the heads of student marchers. This tale, perhaps true, was the only excuse offered last week, for the following student reprisals...
Synagogs Sacked. Men students burst in the doors of six synagogs at Oradia Mare and Cluj. Young women students not only helped them plunder the sacred Arks in which the long parchment Scrolls of the Law were kept, but assisted when these scrolls were stripped from their valuable, gold-encrusted rollers and publicly "soiled"? before the eyes of lamenting Jews...
Assaults. Although more than 700 Jews and Hungarians were reputedly assaulted, last week, the international press did not seriously notice the story until a U. S. citizen, Gottfried Keller, said to be a Y. M. C. A. worker was reported lying unconscious at a hospital in Oradia Mare...
...Hearst sleuths have either done very excellent work in uncovering such a wasp's nest as the German plottings in Mexico in 1916, or they have followed a cold trail to a mare's nest. There is a wide gulf between what is acceptable to journalism and what is recorded by history. And the identity of this episode, no matter which way it turns, cannot help but prove again that verification is the divining...