Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-04

believed that similarly none had
reached the British or the Russians.
Crisis Forced Quickly.
Appearances are that the left
wing in Romania forced the crisis
to head with all possible speed
after the Yalta agreement, hoping
that concerted action would enable
them to seize power before the con-
ference decisions could filter down
in the form of executive orders to
the relatively lower levels repre-
sented by the Soviet authorities or
dinarity i'm charge of Romania.
1t remains to be seen whether
an impartial advisory or control
board would hand, the. ,Romaniao
government over to the Communists.
l asked the supposed head of the
Communist party, Lucretiu Patras-
canu, in September how many par
ty members he had, and was sur
prlsed by the anSWer-2,000. pat
rascanu was made minister of JUS
tice in November). This would in
dictate that a Communist govern
ment in Romania would mean rule
by a small minority and could sur
vive only with outside help, either
direct or indirect.
Visit Moscow.
According to information avail
able here, Gheorgiu Del, minister
of communications in the Radescu
government, went to Moscow early in
January with one of the two real
heads of the Romanian Communist
party, Anna Pauker, Romanian-
born radical who during the '30s
gave up her Romanian citizenship
and became a Soviet citizen.
They returned late the same
month and Del and Anna Pauker
are said to have spread the word
that: l. Peasant Leader Juliu Manu-
must be eliminated; 2. An effort
must be made to win the peasants
by forcing land reforms; 8. The
workers must stay at their benches
in factories; and 4. Romania would
get United Nations standing if a
national Democratic front" govern
ment came to power.
The so-called front was formed in
October by Romanian left-wingers
who grouped themselves into six
different parties-giving them a
claim to six cabinet seats instead
of the one of two which the Com
munist party alone might claim and
get.
News Account Suppressed.
In platform published after the
formation of the front, it was an
nounced Immediately that only con-
troll of the Government by the front
would satisfy the left, and since
then agitation against all other ele-
ments has been steady.
Shortly after the fronts forma-
ton, I witnessed National Peasant
party demonstration in front of the
royal palace in Bucharest at which
King MihAi and Peasant Leader
Manu- wert cheered. The demon
stration was broken up by Com
munist' intervention with shouts of
Down with the king" Down with
the army" and Lets get the Red
Army to protect u.s."
The Soviet censor refused to pass
my eyewitness account or any &C
count at all.
On the following day, Communist
papers in Bucharest declared that
the Peasant party demonstrators
had shouted slogans in favor of
Horia Sima, former leader of the
Romanian Fascist Iron Guard. The
papers also accused Manu- of being
Fascist.
Shortly afterward, MANU-, who
was minister of state, was forced out
of the government, and the leftists
insisted on Radescu as premier
Now Radescu is attacked as a Fas-
cist. And yet Manu- was among the
staunchest of all Romanian fighters
against both Romanian and German
fascism, and Radescu is general
who spent two years in concentra-
ton camp for writing denunciatory
letter to the German minister die
tator in Romania, Baron Manfred
Won Killinger, protesting Romania's
treatment.
Radescu recently made speech
laying the blame for the first of the
current disorders squarely upon the
left, and in particular on Anna
Pauker and her co-head of the
Communist Party, the Hungarian
Lazlo Luca. This was followed by
an abrupt end to his career as
premier.
4