RUMANIA: New Order

From Bulgaria last week CBS Correspondent Leigh White poured out a bagful of new horror stories, gathered from eyewitness accounts of Rumania's fortnight-old Iron Guard rebellion. He told of Green Shirt ruffians ranging through the ghetto of Bucharest, firing shops and synagogues, shooting Jews and Christians who refused to join the fun, beating some senseless and setting matches to their gasoline-soaked bodies. He told of one band of Jews herded into a slaughterhouse, forced to kneel at the chopping blocks where their throats were cut in a grisly parody of kosher butchering. From a Jew, who miraculously escaped...

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