NOTE TO RUMANIA
London, Oct. 29. The British Note to Rumania said that the impression has been given that the Rumanian authorities are attempting to win the elections by various methods of falsification now, even before the elections take place on November 19. The Note charges that the army, the gendarmerie, and public authorities are being employed by the Government to further their electoral campaign and that there is good reason to believe that pressure through various forms of intimidation is being brought to bear on civil servants and workmen, through the respective unions, to vote in favour of the regime at present in power. The Note continues: “If the Rumanian Government considers the suspicions of falsification are unfounded, 1 it remains for it to prove to the satisfaction of the world that the final official election lists have been genuinely compiled and contain the names of all the eligible voters of all political beliefs, and are conveniently accessible to all.” The Note adds that His Majesty’s Government is aware that the Rumanian Government promulgated a law for compiling the electoral rolls and the subsequent conduct of the elections. It is the view of His Majesty’s Government that certain features of this law are not consonant with democratic practice. The Note says that the essential condition that all democratic parties should have equal freedom and facilities to engage in political activity before the elections was at present clearly being disregarded. Members of the Rumanian opposition were continually subjected to acts of intimidation, and armed bands, nf hooligans were continually breaking up their meetings. “These acts of violence apparently occurred with the connivance of the police end without preventive action on the part of the Rumanian Government.”
The Note emphasises that the parties to whom freedom of political activity should have been granted include the Peasant Party, the Liberal Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the Independent Party.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 31 October 1946, Page 5
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317NOTE TO RUMANIA Wanganui Chronicle, 31 October 1946, Page 5
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