The collapse of the Goga Cabinet in Rumania though it has come as a surprise, was not entirely to be unforeseen. M. Goga headed a comparatively small anti-Semitic minority, and it seems that the immediate need of Rumania is for the establishment of a coalition government through which the will of the democracy Shall prevail A number of reasons have been given for M. Goga's failure to carry on, ranging from the Soviet protest over the dissapearance of M. Theodore Butenko, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, to the refusal of Rumanian financiers to ce-operate with his government. King Carol has appealed to the Patriarch of the National Orthodox Church to form a Cabinet, and the latter has invited no fewer, than seven former Prime Ministers to assist him in his task. That they have consented to do so means that leaders of many shades of political opinion will take part in the deliberations of the Cabinet, and that it will represent a very wide section of Rumanian political thought, and should bring a majority of the electorate to its support, In effect the contemplated totalitarian system of government has failed to carry on, and this latest development is to be welcomed as a success for democracy of which the Goga Cabinet and its policies were the direct negation. Another gratifying result of this latest development is that the Jews have, at any rate for the time being, a respite from the anti-Semitic activities which marked M. Goga's entry into power. It is not believed that the new Cabinet will continue to adopt this portion of the Goga policy, and that the unhappy Jews, whose existence in Rumania was threatened, will be able to remain in that country and continue to receive the same protection which they had enjoyed up to December last. Neverthless they will always remain in a state of anxiety for the possibility that another minority government might come into existence must always give them cause for worry, and if large numbers of them decided to emigrate whenever possible, it will not be surprising.
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