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Rumanian Labor Minister Calls for “resolute” Action to Obtain Full Jewish Rights

March 17, 1947
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“Anti-Semitism cannot be fought by concessions ,but only by resolute action giving the Jews in fact full equality of rights, ” Lothar Radaceanu, Rumanian Minister of Labor and general secretary of the Social Democratic Party, declared at the inauguration meeting here of the “Circle of Jewish Social Democrats,” held during the week-end.

The recently formed section of the national Socialist party resolved to study Jewish problems and fight anti-Semitism. It demanded pension rights for the dependents of Jews murdered by the Nazis, full citizenship rights, restitution of Jewish property, an immediate reopening of the trial of the perpetrators of the Jassy massacre and vocational retraining for victims of Hitlerism.

A protest against the “inexplicable” delay in trying those responsible for the massacre of Jews in Jassy in 1941 was voiced in the parliament by a non-Jewish deputy Dimitru Pop, a Social Democrat, who said that further postponement of the trial was unjustifiable. He demanded the immediate arrest of those responsible for “one of the biggest and worst crimes against humanity.”

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