Oldal 1 [1]
OCR
REPORT FROM RUMANIA test development Ths inner evolution in Rumania has rapidly developed along the lines already indicated in previous dispatches. Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej has centra ized and strengthened all powers in his hands. Prime-Minister and Number-one man in Politbureau and Party Secretariate, he has furdamentally reorganized the group of his co-workerSe At present, government, Party, judiciary power and the leaders in the economic and cultural life are all safe men ready to stay in the official Moscow line. The “converts to communism" that have come from the socialist camp, disappear ome after the other. Most remarkable is the climbing in Party ana government of the two new Vice-Presidents: Gheorghe Apostol, the Presia nt of the Gencral Confedcration of Labor and Chivu Stoica, previously Minister of metallurgical Industry After the realignement of government, Party and high administration, the next step has already been taken. Under the presidency of Gheorghiu-Dej, a Parliamentary cormission has finished in the middle of July, the project of the new Rumanian Uonstita tions This Constitution follows the pattern of similar instruments prepared now in several of the Satellite States. he basis of all these projects ig a complete administrative reorganization and unification, Countries are divided into regions and districts, which heve nothing in common with traditional and historic provinces ? or states. “Supreme power" - in other terms the right of agreeing with a Moscow dictated policy - is vested in a National Assembly, to be elected by universal and equal vote of all citizens. the basic principle in economic life is that of a State capitalism and collectivization, wit! elimination of all “capitalistic elements - farm rs, trade, private business and industries. ~ Finnlly the already indicated repressive measures against all untrustworthy elements is continuing. From every vart of the country, further large-scale deportation of "bourgeois" familics and transplantation of remaining Hungarian and German-speaking minorities are reported. rrigsons and concentration camps are filled with “enemics of the people“; thes¢ are the Church leaders, the menbers of the previous" political parties, mny “capitalists", "feuaolists" and Westerners? farmers who resisted collectivigzation, and the victims of communist Party purges® Finally, the anti-semitic campaign is far from relaxede There are approximately 300.000 Jevs remaining in ‘wmania. According to the latest news received, their emigration to Israel has been entirely suspenda@d e | . a
