But, as earlier despatches have already suggested, the lot of the Jews in
Rumania has
definitely worsened since the inauguration of the present regime three months ago. In the first
place, the green-shirted [Iron Guard](https://portal.ehri-project.eu/authorities?q=Iron+Guard) is in
power, and the [Iron
Guard](https://portal.ehri-project.eu/authorities?q=Iron+Guard) is notoriously and avowedly an essentially anti-Semitic
organization.
In the second place, Rumania not only has come
under the direct ‘influence’ of Nazi
Germany but is now actually a member of the Axis
and an adherent to the [Tripartite Pact](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Pact). And, thirdly, the country requires scape-goats for all the evils
and misfortunes of the day, and finds that the Jews,
along with former King Carol
and the old politicians, serve admirably in this unhappy role. These considerations, plus an
underlying sentiment of genuine anti-Semitism generally, provide sufficient reason and background for Jewish
fears and sufferings in Rumania today. [...]
In recent weeks the Jewish plaint has not been one of lost positions, special taxes
or discriminatory restrictions – that is an old story. Rather it has been one of
deaths, torture, beatings, abductions, confiscation, robbery
and violence in all forms. It is not an exaggeration to say that here today one sees
the Jews with tears, hollow eyes and wringing hands. Many of them never go out; they
keep to their homes for fear of meeting violence in the street. A few, who have reasons to fear
they may be sought out, creep from friend to friend or house to house afraid to go to their
own homes to sleep. Those of means endeavor frantically to dispose of their property, secure funds abroad and find a way to leave the
country.