The Rumanian authorities have arrested Marcel Pohne, Bucharest correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the official Rumanian nows agency reported today. The dispatch, which also reported the arrest of Leonard Kirscher, correspondent of the Associated Press, did not reveal the charges against the representatives of the American news agencies.
(The J.T.A. today asked the U.S. State Department to investigate the action taken by the Rumanian authorities against the representative of an American news agency. The State Department is seeking additional information through the American legation in Bucharest.)
Mr. Pohne, who is 37 years old, has represented the J.T.A. in Bucharest for the last two years. A native of Cologne, Germany, he was a student at the University of Cologne when Hitler’s seizure of power in Germany forced him to emigrate. He settled in Rumania, but was deported to Transnistria in 1942, returning to Bucharest in 1944, where he was employed by British newspapers.
Earlier this month, Mr. Pohne, who had been deprived of German citizenship 12 years ago, was informed that the German Government at Bonn had restored his German nationality.
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