An appellate court here today began hearings on an appeal against the sentences of 19 Rumanian war criminals who have been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against the Jews.
The defendants include 18 members of the pro-Nazi Antonescu government who were convicted and sentenced last year for responsibility in the deportation and murder of Jew. The nineteenth is Ovidiu Vladescu, who was tried and convicted at another time. Vladescu, a notorious anti-Semite, was an Under-secretary of State and head of the “National Rumanianization Centre,” which administered the property confiscated from Jews during the war.
A demand that the British Government and military forces withdraw immediately from Palestine and entrust the security of the country to the Haganah was voiced here today by the Central Committee of the Rumanian Zionist Organization.
Previously the Committee rejected a motion submitted by the left-wing Labor Zionist faction expressing non-confidence in the Zionist Organization’s executive, headed by Mishu Benvenisti. The vote was 50 to 12. The Committee sent messages expressing Rumanian Jewry’s solidarity with the Haganah to the Jewish Agency and the Jewish National Council of Palestine.
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