RUMANIA: Student Outrage

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.

The 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...

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