The Sunday Express today reported that Anna Pauker’s downfall as Foreign Minister of Rumania was the result of betrayal by another leading Rumanian woman communist who told of alleged bribes paid her for the emigration of Rumanian Jews to Israel.
According to the Sunday Express story, Liuba Chisinevski told Communist Party commisars in Rumania that Mrs. Pauker had received from $100 to $1,000 for each Rumanian Jew who left for Israel. The report says that Miss Chisinevski accused the former Foreign Minister of depositing the money in a secret bank account she had opened in Israel.
(An Associated Press dispatch from Vienna reported today that Anna Pauker got into trouble with Moscow two years ago when she reportedly arranged to have her aged father sent to Israel. The A.P. also quotes Western diplomats as saying that the fact that she was a Jewess was a major consideration in the internal cut throat rivalry for power which led to her dismissal.)
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