The Ministry of Information today notified the Foreign Press Association that it has withdrawn the credentials of Nichelas Petrasen, weteran Reuter “string ” correspondent here, for having ” grosaly ###represented” the statement in which Prime Minister Petre Groza allegedly said that anti-Semitism could be checked in Rumania, if U.S. Jews donated $100,000,000 for non-Jewish relief: in needly areas.The statement, which was reported by Hubert Harrison, a Reuter correspondent, aroused considerable furor inside Rumania and abroad, and last week, Groza in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, denied making the statement and said that he had been misquoted. Petrascu acted as interpreter during Harrison’s interview with Groza. He is charged with “having jeopardized the good relations between the Rumanian people and other nationalities, especially Jews.”
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