| Show I Romania Ministry Ousts leading Woman Red BUCHAREST ROMANIA July 5 UP UP Mrs Ana one of Romania's most powerful Communist Com Corn I leaders until stripped of I her party posts a month ago was wasI I fired Saturday as foreign min mm- ister A government d de decree e c r c e C announced announced announced an an- that Mrs had been freed of her functions and andI I Simion Romanian ambassador ambassador ambassador am am- o lo Moscow i recalled to Bucharest to take over the foreign foreign for for- eign ministry Simion left Moscow by plane Friday for Cor Bucharest the government gov gov- announcement said Observers in London said the announcement meant that Mrs 1 also had been dismissed from Crom her more or less honorary I additional post of vice Ice premier premer Diplomatic sources in the British capital predicted that the disI dismissal dismissal dis dis- I missal would be followed by her arrest and trial together with I II I j I other recently purged rank high-rank- I ing Romanian Communists I I Simion her successor as forI foreign for for- eign dign minister is unknown outside outside outside out out- I side Romania He is not a memI member member mem mem- ber of any of the three con controlling controlling troll troll-I I ing bodies of the Romanian Communist Com Corn I Im m n st Party the Politburo the the and the Secretariat I The ouster of the year old I Mrs from the foreign I ministry completed the downfall I of oC the worlds world's most important woman Communist and the first I I woman ever to achieve such high I cabinet rank in a Communist cou country n try Although no reason was given for Cor her removal from the government government govern govern- I ment the charges presumably stemmed from those levelled against her on her dismissal from the Romanian Communist Party policy-making policy Politburo and Central Central Central Cen Cen- Committee late in May At that time the party reprimanded reprimanded reprimanded I I her for rightist deviations deviations devia devia- I devia-I I lions and living on a slope of aristocracy It linked her with I the activities of former Cormer Interior Minister Georgescu and former Finance Minister Vasile Luca who a few weeks previously previous previous- i ly also had been stripped of all party and government posts I IThe The Journal for lasting peace and the peoples people's I democracy accused her along with Georgescu and and Luca of I party anti-party and state anti-state activities activities ties tics support of counterrevolutionary counterrevolutionary counter I elements clements suppressIon of oC i I criticism double-dealing double opportunism opportunism opportunism neglect in the formation of new collective farms tolerance toward kulaks large landholders land hold ers and cultivation of unprincipled unprincipled unprincipled relations within the party I leadership I Mrs had been foreign minister since Nov 7 1947 She I was as sworn in by then King Michael who abdicated less than two months later j |
