Dr. Edward Manulescu, vice-president of the Union of Rumanian Jews, and Anghel Dascalu, of the Jewish Democratic Committee, two of the three candidates running specifically on a Jewish slate, were elected in last week’s Rumanian national elections. The third candidate, Dr. Bernard Rohrlich, of the Jewish party, was defeated.
The Jewish parties are demanding that the Democratic bloc, which was victorious, live up to its pre-election pact guaranteeing seats in the parliament to all three Jewish party candidates. They ask that one of the government party deputies resign in favor of Dr. Rohrlich. The majority of the 25 other Jewish candidates who ran on general Rumanian party slates were elected.
The law restoring Jews to citizenship status lost through discriminatory legislation during the pro-Nazi regime or through territorial changes has not yet been issued, but the Ministry of Justice today exempted from registration as aliens all Jews who have returned from deportation or who were repatriated from the Soviet Union.
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