Orthodox Clergy and Members to Leave AN Parties Bucharest, Feb. 26.
The Government decided yesterday to terminate the functions of the naturalization committee which had hitherto examined all applications for Rumanian citizenship. In future all such applications will be submitted directly to Parliament.
The Minister of Trade, M. Argetojanu, the leader of the Rumanian Agrarian Party, has declared his party's dissolution.
The Holy Synod of the Rumanian Orthodox Church, after lengthy deliberations decided yesterday that all clergy and all church adherents should be called upon to withdraw from all parties of which they were members.
The press published last night a list of Rumanian citizens in Bucharest who voted against the new constitution. Among the more well-known politicians who abstained were M. Come Codreanu, the leader of the former Iron Guard.
Messrs. Georg Bratianu, Mihalache and Maniu. M. Octavian Coga and the Liberal, M. Dinu Bratianu, had left Rumania.—Trans-Ocean.
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