A new Jewish medical plot has been found by the Communist authorities in Hungary, the Budapest Communist organ Szabad Nep reports in editions received here today. In this case, the head and two directors of a Budapest hospital are accused of revealing “party secrets.”
The paper reported that Dr. Imre Zador, head of the hospital, had already been convicted of the charge. Two hospital directors. Dr. Babics and Dr. Lenhof, were said to share the “heavy responsibility” with Dr. Zador and to have been dismissed from their posts. Dr. Zador’s punishment was not indicated.
According to the paper, Dr. Zador allegedly obtained party secrets from a highly placed Communist official who was a patient at the hospital, while the patient was under the influence of drugs, and communicated these “secrets” to the other two doctors.
In Rumania, the Communist regime has ordered another purge of “enemy elements,” according to the newspaper, Scanteia. The Bucharest paper says these elements are persons linked to Ana Pauker, the former Foreign Minister who is now in disgrace, Vasile Luca and Teohari Georgescu.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA STEPS UP PURGE OF JEWS
Information received here today from Prague through trustworthy sources disclosed that the Czechoslovak Government has intensified the purge of Jews from all public positions and has speeded up deportation of Jewish families from the larger population centers to villages in the provinces. The Czechoslovak Army, it was reported, has already been “cleansed” of Jews. Jews in public jobs are being removed on grounds of alleged connections with “Zionist circles.”
The deportation of Jews to the provinces is being carried out in Czechoslovakia in a more humanitarian manner than similar deportations in Rumania and Hungary. Families to be deported are given five to ten days’ notice of the move. They are permitted to take their possessions, including furniture, along with them, but since they are warned that their new quarters will not be spacious, they have to leave many things behind. The homes and apartments they vacate in the cities are being assigned to Communist officials.
According to estimates here, there are about 20,000 Jews left in Czechoslovakia,
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