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labor and industrial groups, he confirmed in every detail
the facts and conclusions that this Mission had reported
to the Department. In his report he said that he was con-
vinced that the Groza Government was in no sense repre-
sentative, that the two political groups, the National
Peasant and National Liberal Parties, which had the sup-
port of the vast majority of the Rumanian people, not
only were out of the Government, but their leaders were
being harassed by the Government, arrested without cause,
their political clubs requisitioned, their newspapers sup-
pressed, and their public meetings banned. Mr. Ethridge
reported that, of the parties within the Government, the
0
Communist Party is almost wholly a Russian creation, led
by persons of non-Rumanian origin (Anna Pauker, Vasile
Luca, Emil Bodnaras), and was pursuing a policy that has
no basis in Rumanian traditions, a policy that was daily
increasing tension and resistance in Rumania. He stated
the Plowmen's Front (Groza's organization) and the
Patriotic Union (Communist affiliate) were groups sus-
tained by the Communists to appeal to the peasant and
artisan classes. Tatarescu, who leads the Dissident
Liberal Group, has been so discredited by his past con-
duct that he is dependent upon the Russians for protec-
tion and may be counted upon to do their bidding. Only
the Socialists among the parties in the government, were
directly independent of Russian domination, and there
were indications that this condition would not last for
long. The policy of the Groza Government, completely
dominated by the Communists, who receive their orders
from Moscow, furthers the Soviet exploitation of Rumania.
Mr. Ethridge
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