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=). See. KR > XeAe-NO.15 for June 1952. INTELLIGENCE ROUNDUP. RUMANIA : Up to the time of recent inner developments. Uommunist Party in Rumania was entirely ruled by a strongly knit group of "Big Five":Gheorghe | Gheorghiu-Dej, the Secretary General of the Party; Anna Pauker, the Foreign | Minister, member of the Politbureau and of the Party Secre&ariate; Theohari Georgescu, Vice/Premier and Minister of the Interior; Vasile Luca, VicePremier and Minister of Fanances; and Josip Kishinewski, Deputy Secredáry General of the Party. Gheorgiu-Dej is the only truely Rumanian of the group; he is a genuine proletarian and self-made wane Persona gratissima in Moscow ana popular with workers and peasants in his country, he remains at present as Rumania's only leaders Recent party purges have eliminated or at the least strongly endangered his four co-directors of whom none is from Rumanian stock: Anna Pauker, Georgescu (Nuchem Solomon Pashievici) and Kishinewski | (Broitman) are Jewish; Vasile Luca (Laczi Lucacs) is Transsylvanian. | The most important among the victims of the purge - for having been the most powerful and the most active - is Anna Pauker, a woman of rare intelligence and ambitions, but without much heart and feelings. Born in 1894 as daughter. from a rabbi from Bessarabia, she studied medecine, became teacher and entered in 1921 the direction of the illegal Communist Partye She had to flee from the country, met in Switzerland a communist agitator Marcel Pauker and married him. She is said to have participated in the Moscow-ordered Liquidation of hr husband, who was condemmed for trozzkyisme The only warm fecling 4nna Pauker ever showed is for her only child, a daughter. “he has, Strangely enough, tried to give the Zirl op »ortunities that were not in line with Party thinking. It was only on admonition from Moscow that Anna rauker decided in 1949 to take her daughter out of the French school she attended in Kumania. It was for her that Anna Pauker took the risk of having secret funds in Switzerland. Sha has now married the girl not to a proletarian but to a member of the old Bojar aristocracy. For. all other members of her family or of her childhood religion, Anna Pauker has outwardly shown no attachment. Her father emigrated to Palestine where he died two years ago with nothing but a course on his daughter. Anna Pauker has indeed been given the reputation of a remagates she is said to have | persecuted Zionism with the same hate and cruelty with which she worked at the elimination of the Monarchy and at the liquidation of the previous regime. But what really happened is that Anna Pauker desperately tried to combine two Loyaities: she saw in communism the fulfillment of judaism and tried to foster both. Her repudiation of Israel was but an outward front that she was forced to maintain émen in face of her father and of his : correligioners. Secretely she helped many Jews to escape to Palestine. She has become the victim of her double loyalty: she is blamed by Zionists for being an atheist; she is now discarded by communists on account of her | racial, religious and social background. For the rank and file of the Yarty — indeed she continued to be considered a Jewess and an intellectual and never | enjoyed any popularity. sg i pene . == f= a