The mayor of Ploesti, Rumania, has written to the Jewish community condemning anti-Semitic rioters and expressing deep sympathy with the victims of the recent pogrom, it was reported here today. During the excesses Iron Guardists bombed a house in which 24 Jewish men, women and children were barricaded.
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