Into the Sunlight

"Beautiful Rumania, formerly sad and enslaved, marches confidently into the sunlight of the future . . ."

So wrote Communist Mike Gold in last Sunday's issue of Manhattan's Daily Worker. The article also paid touching tribute to Rumania's Red Ana Pauker as "a mature, motherly woman with greying hair set in a youthful bob. She has the finest and-most luminous brown eyes . . ." By way of illustration, the Worker ran a drawing of Comrade Pauker looking tender, handsome and soulful. That picture of Ana Pauker came about as close to what she really looks like as the Worker's account of a free, sunny Rumania came to picturing the country's real condition.

Last week, Western capitals heard some new reports on life in Rumania. Bucharest police recently rounded up several hundred Rumanian politicians and generals, most of them aging and long retired. Among them: George Tatarescu, 58, who was Premier under King Carol's regime, then turned his coat to serve the Communists as Foreign Minister until November 1947; and Octogenarian Constantin (Dinu) Bratianu, for years the leader of Rumania's National Liberal Party.

Likeliest purpose of the arrests: another show trial, to provide scapegoats for Rumania's rapidly worsening internal situation. For beautiful Rumania continues to be bled white by its Russian masters and their puppets while most Rumanians (with the exception of fat Mother Pauker and the Communist hierarchy) live in deepening misery.

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