Intolerance In Rumania.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 2, 1913:
Bad Outlook for Population if Bulgaria Cedes Territory.
    LONDON. Jan. 20.— Attention is being drawn here to the consequences that would be likely to follow the cession of territory by Bulgaria to Rumania in consequence of the latter State's demand for "compensation" for her neutrality in the war against Turkey.
    As is generally known, the treatment of the Jews in Rumania is, if anything, worse than in Russia, and several years ago it became so outrageous that interest in the subject was aroused throughout Europe and America. Bulgaria, on the other hand, treats all citizens in an enlightened manner. It would be a terrible misfortune for the Jews in the slice of territory that, it is understood, Rumania demands as payment for her neutrality if they were transferred from the rule of Sofia to that of Bucharest.
    On this subject Lucien Wolf writes in The Graphic: "I am curious to know what the Conference of Ambassadors will have to say to the claims of Rumania for a slice of Bulgarian territory as compensation for the disturbed balance of power in the Balkans. Most of them, I dare say, are praying that the two States will settle the question between them, and call upon Europe only to recognize the accomplished fact. For the Triple Alliance especially it is a delicate matter, seeing that Rumania has long been a sort of ally of theirs. This consideration, however, need not appeal to Great Britain and France, whose interests in the Balkans are less material. They can afford to look at the question from the point of view of treaty rights and good government, and I trust most devoutly that they will take their stand on that ground.
    "It would be a real misfortune for any Bulgarian territory to be ceded to Rumania, for in Bulgaria all citizens, irrespective of race or creed, are equal before the law and are treated with the most even-handed justice, while in Rumania religious intolerance and disabilities flourish as rankly as in Russia itself.
    "The worst of it is that Rumania has added bad faith to her intolerance, for in 1880 she pledged herself to abolish all civil and religious disabilities in accordance with Article XLIV of the Treaty of Berlin, and received in return the European recognition of her independence. This pledge she has cynically broken."