The Congress That Never Was: The General Congress of the Press, Cluj, December 1923
The Congress That Never Was: The General Congress of the Press, Cluj, December 1923

Summary/Abstract: December 1923 marked the first anniversary of the “student movement” in Romania. The student movement spectacularly seized this opportunity to capture public attention at any cost, even with violent means, on order to relentlessly promote its agenda and to severely censor those who dared to oppose its ideas and actions. Its intentions were clear, for instance, in regard to an important event the city was preparing to host: the General Congress of the Press. Gathering outside the universities, where they had been unable to obtain the “numerus clausus,” the students diversified their arsenal and ways of fighting; they set themselves new institutional targets. Not only did the main political parties repeatedly miss the opportunity to show solidarity in the face of such violent outbursts and intolerable abuse, but the press—the independent one (not explicitly affiliated politically), which reflected and reinforced public opinion—also failed to put up a common front.

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