RUMANIAN POLITICAL DEADLOCK ENDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 7, 9 January 1946, Page 3

RUMANIAN POLITICAL DEADLOCK ENDS

Recd. 6 p.m. London, Jan. 7 The deadlock created by ihe Groza Government, in Rumania when it refused the first nominations from the National Peasant, and Liberal parties ended with confirmation of the appointmenls to the Government ot Emil riatieganu (Peasant Party) and Mihail Romniceanu (Liberal Party).

Reuter’s correspondent is Bucharest says that these appointments followed a meeting of the three-Fower commission appointed by the Moscow conference to investigate means of making the Rumanian Government acceptable to Britain and America. Romniceanu is a banker and a former Minister of Finance; M. Hatieganu is a prominent Transylvanian who was arrested by the Hungarians when Transylvania was taKe.i over in 1940 and released by the Russians when they captured Cluj. M. Vyshinsky will probably leave Bucharest by air to-morrow for the meeting of the General Assembly of the U.N.O. Mr. Harriman and Sir Reginald Clark-Kerr are staying on end will continue the second ta k assigned by the Moscow conference—the securing of guarantees of free eiecticns in Rumania.

JOINT GOVERNMENT

BULGARIA’S ATTEMPT TO LAY DOWN CONDITIONS

freed- 6 p.m. London, Jan. 7. The conditions on which the Government is prepared to accept two Opposition members in the Government in accordance with recommendations of the Moscow conference are set cut in a Note to the Opposition wings of the Agrarian and Social Democrat, parties, says Reuter’s Sofia correspondent. They include: Firstly, the Opposition must approve the foreign and internal policy of the present^i> ver nmen t; secondly. Opposition representatives in the Government must consider themselves under obligation to complv with the basic principles of this policy; thirdly, the present Parliament must continue until the session ends on March 28 and approve the State Budget, the municipal and other laws summoning the Grand National Assembly; fourthly, future elections should be held with separate partv lists, or free of parly coalitions: fifthly, parties eventually entering th*» Government must stop r]l animosity towards tho Government. The enrrespondent adds that the rpposd.ion wines of Agrarian and Social Democratic parties have turned down most of these proposals and submitted counter proposals demanding that the Ministries of the Interior and Justice should go to other political organisations, so that the freedom of citizens could be guaranteed and that new free elections should be held ns soon as Possible. A Moscow message states that Generalissimo Stalin received the Bulgarian delegation and M. Molotov was also present