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tion Cars which we contacted when we visited a
hall where about four hundred students of the
University of Jassy were being fed. I had been told
that Cars, which managed this food distribution,
was first inefficient and second, entirely political.
Of the two thousand students at the University,
only those who belonged to the Communist Party
shared in the food distribution. Cars had tried to
compel the Swedish relief organization to adopt the
same policy, but the Swedish representatives had
succeeded in warding off this manoeuvre.
”Yes, Cars is completely on the Communist
leash,” a Romanian confirmed to us after our
return to Bucharest. This Romanian had formerly
held a very prominent position, and during a,
lengthy conversation with me, he gave a picture of the
conditions prevalent which was particularly
interesting to me as he proved to know a good deal
about the organization of the Romanian Red Cross
and the circumstances under which it was obliged to
work. ”There prevails in Romania a Communist
front which is supported by the Russian Control
Commission and the Russian troops. This is the
more remarkable as the elections which took place
last autumn must in reality be considered to have
given a clear anti-communist result. According to
official information, eighty percent voted
Communist. This was a false figure, actually it must
have been about eight percent. There were local
examples of the results of the election being
published before the election had finished or even
begun. The majority of the votes were cast for the
Agrarian party and for the Liberals. But these
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