President. last summer. at the time of the Geneva Conference. which was to put an end to tensions. the Communist leaders were carrying on a vigorous campaign among escapees in the West to persuade them to return home. Now we learn that. 3 or 4 months after the summit meeting. the Communist rulers of Rumania murdered hundreds of their political opponents and left their bodies unburied in the streets as a warning to their suffering people. What makes more horrible this example of murder as an instrument of government policy is the seductive advertisements published by the Communist Government of Rumania. in the press of Western Europe and the United States. urging political refugees to return because a new era had begun. Rumanian Communists had issued a decree of amnesty to refugee political opponents in July 1955. At home political prisoners were freed from the jails. Advertisements in our papers promised complete restoration of citizenship to refugees who would return. Immediately upon their entering the country. Rumanians in Washington were invited to return. by an advertisement in the Washington Post of July 20. 1955.
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