Fulton Lewis, Jr., nationally syndicated columnist, charged today that Nicolae Malaxa, former Rumanian living “in palatial elegance” in this city, has been implicated in the death of 100,000 Rumanian Jews during World War II. Declaring that efforts to deport him to Rumania have been unavailing, Mr. Lewis stated: “There is no explanation why Malaxa is still here. Nor is there an excuse.”
According to the columnist, Malaxa, an industrialist in Bucharest, “financed the infamous Iron Guard of Rumania, which massacred, tortured, imprisoned and hanged hundreds of thousands of Jews in the early days of 1941.”
Later, during the war, Mr. Lewis alleges, Malaxa “hooked up” with Albert Goering, brother of Marshal Goering, Hitler’s No. 2 man, and “helped supply Hitler’s army with some of the metallurgical products so badly needed during the war.” Mr. Lewis asserted that Malaxa came to the United States in 1946 to represent the Communist Rumanian Government, and has remained here since.
The United States Immigration Service, which has held deportation hearings against Malaxa, “has been stymied in its efforts to send him back to Rumania, “according to Mr. Lewis.
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