J.t.a. Correspondent in Rumania Ousted from Journalists’ Association As “american Spy”

The State Department was advised today from Bucharest that Marcel Phone, correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Bucharest, and Leonard Kirschner, representative of the Associated Press there, have been expelled from the Foreign Correspondents Association in Rumania, because of their alleged “subversive activity as Anglo-American spies.” Both correspondents have been under arrest since last week.

The Association is composed mostly of pro-Soviet journalists and Rumanian citizens working as correspondents for foreign publications. The resolution to expel Mr. Pohne and Mr. Kirschner from the Association was supported by 17 members, with the only contrary vote being cast by the correspondent of France Presse, a French news agency, the State Department report said.