Restoration of the rights of the Iron Guardists does not mean surrender to the Nazis nor a prelude to an anti-Semitic outbreak in Rumania, the Rumanian Legation told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today.
A Legation spokesman interpreted the move as an effort by King Carol to unite the whole Rumanian people against outside pressure and stressed the fact that the Iron Guardists had been forced to sign pledges of allegiance to King Carol before they were released.
He pointed to the recent acquittal of three prominent Jews as evidence that Rumania would not turn to anti-Semitism. (The Jews, Sigmund Birman, Leopold Stern and Achille Saraga, were reported in a Bucharest dispatch yesterday to have been acquitted by a military court of charges of disloyal acts against the Rumanian State. The dispatch did not specify the exact nature of the alleged acts.)
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