Alecxander Vaida-Voevod, 74-year-old former Premier of Rumania and founder of the anti-Semitic Rumanian party known as the “Front of National Rebirth”, was arrested yesterday at Sibiu, Transylvania.
One of Rumania’s leading anti-Semites, Vaida-Voeved was the first to start a campaign for the introduction of “ghetto benches” for Jews in Rumanian colleges and schools, In 1928, when he was Minister of Interior, he put his party on record as demanding restrictions for Jews. A broadcast over the Bucharest radio today announcing his arrest describes him as “the father of the Anti-Semitic Iron Guard movement.”
A broadcast from Moscow today reported that the Hungarian provisional Government of Col. Gen. Bela Miklos has issued an order emphasizing that the decree repealing all anti-Jewish laws and regulations of the former Hungarian regime must be enforced in all liberated parts of Hungary. The order also declared void all sentences passed under the anti-Jewish laws and decreed that all persons sentenced or arrested under these laws must be freed.
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