ELECTIONS IN RUMANIA

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24895, 7 June 1946, Page 7

ELECTIONS IN RUMANIA

BRITISH AND U.S. REQUESTS

REPLIES CONSIDERED UNSATISFACTORY

(Rec. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, June fl. "The Rumanian reply to the Britinh request for promulgation of an electoral law and the fixing of an early date for elections, is described in London as thoroughly unsatisfactory," says the Press Association’s diplomatic correspondent. “The reply claims that there is complete freedom and equality of the press in Rumania—although no Rumanian newspaper has published the original British Note. The reply also says that elections will be held soon, but gives no date. It claims that a perfect state of liberty and freedom prevails throughout the country. It does not accept the British allegation that the Rumanian Opposition is being broken up, but says nothing about the fact that two members of the Opposition in the Cabinet were not acquainted with the documents forwarded by Britain to Rumania." A State Department spokesman In Washington also said that the Rumanian Government had sent an unsatisfactory reply to the American request to Rumania to appoint an early date for free elections. The text of the reply was not released, but spokesmen said that the reply presented a distorted and inaccurate picture.

LIFE PORTRAIT OF HITLER

EXHIBITION IN LONDON (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON. June fl. “The only painting of Hitler made from life is being exhibited in Oxford street to-morrow as part of the victory celebrations,” says the Exchange Telegraph Agency. “It was painted by an obscure Berlin artist, Klaus Richter, from a sketch made as he hid in peril of his life behind a curtain in a special train while Hitler was in conference with Mussolini.

“Goering, who commissioned Richter, was present, having previously threatened the artist with death if he showed even the tip of his nose. Richter watched Hitler in a rage, raving for an hour while generals stood as though hypnotised and Mussolini, who was in disgrace after El Alavnein, did not speak a single word. It was a terrifying ordeal for the painter as Hitler kept glancing at a slit in the curtain.

“The painting shows Hitler wearing an expression of dejection with his eyes bulging and his mouth twisted.”