News of a new mass trial of 19 Jewish leaders in Rumania reached Israel today. The reports said that all the defendants were convicted and sentenced to various terms between five and 12 years in prison. Among the convicted men were a number of Zionist youth leaders, including M. Argintero; Leon Weinstein; S. Drimmer; Itzhak Premo and Jacob Rosenblatt.
(The New York Times, commenting editorially on the imprisonment of about 200 Zionist leaders in Rumania, says: “The Zionists now being punished for their efforts to free Jews from the general enslavement that is Rumanian life today are martyrs in the common struggle against oppression. The free world must seek their release, as part of the effort to support all friends of freedom–of all nationalities, cultures and religions –behind the Iron Curtain.”)
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