RUSSIAN PURGE SEQUEL
Rumania Follows Kremlin Lead (NJZ. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, July 5. Communist countries in Europe today are swinging solidly behind the Kremlin purge, and one of them, Rumania, has already followed Moscow’s lead by dismissing two of its senior leaders.
Mr losif Chisinevschi, secretary of tile Rumanian Central Committee, was dismissed from this post and from membership of the Rumanian Political Bureau.
The Rumanian Workers’ Communist Party also announced yesterday that it had dismissed Mr Hiron Connstantinescu from the political bureau. According to reports from Bucharest, fioth men were generally regarded as belonging to the Rumanian Party’s Stalinist wing. Some Western observers interpreted the Rumanian announcement as foreshadowing changes in the leadership of other Communist parties.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28323, 8 July 1957, Page 11
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