Property which was confiscated by the former pro-Nazi government from Transylvanian Jews, most of whom were deported, and which is now under state control, will be returned to the owners or their heirs upon application, it was announced today.
Victor Davidovits, 19, a former deportee and only survivor of a large family, died in the Jewish hospital at Satu-Mare, in Transylvania today, as a result of wounds suffered during an anti-Semitic riot in that city last month.
Meir Yaari, general-secretary of the Hashomer Hatzair in Palestine, who has been visiting here in response to an invitation from Rumanian trade unions, left today for Palestine aboard the liner Transylvania, which carried a group of immigrants who will settle in the Holy Land. Before leaving, Yaari saw Vasile Luca, general secretary of the Rumanian Communist Party, who assured Yaari that his party looks favorably upon Jewish aspirations in Palestine.
Luca’s statement, which was published on the front page of the left-wing daily Romania Libera, pledged that no obstacle would be placed in the way of Jews desiring to emigrate to Palestine, and added that “Jews and Arabs should live together in peace and not allow themselves to become tools of the imperialists.”
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