A Romanian fascist whose articles helped inspire anti-Semitism should not be honored by a Paris hospital, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said. In a letter sent last Friday to France’s health minister, Jean-Francois Mattei, the center’s Shimon Samuels said that a ceremony honoring Nicolae Paulescu, a Romanian researcher in the field of diabetes, should not go ahead as planned on Aug. 27.
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