 Despite becoming the objects of an antisemitic campaign in newspapers such as "Cuvântul" and "Universul", the "Alge" contributors only received suspended sentences.Pals, the non-naturalized son of Ukrainian Jews, was threatened with deportation.Păun was eventually welcomed at "unu", where he published in 1932 one of the most representative among his early poems, titled “Epitaf pentru omul-bou” (Epitaph for the Man-Ox), but continued to publish more conventional verse in left-wing reviews