Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Tuesday, 25 February 1930

Bucharest:  In the ongoing crisis that includes reports of a Red Army buildup along the Romanian border, the government announces that the former chief of Romania’s secret police has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the Soviet Union.
New York:  2,000 communists hold a demonstration march in the garment district against police brutality; 400 police protect them on their route.  On Wall Street, 200 members of the Young Communists League also hold a demonstration.  Two are arrested.

Athens:  300 communists storm a jail, attempting to free 20 of their comrades.  

Minsk, Belorus (Belorussian S.S.R.):  Three of the rabbis arrested earlier this month are still held by soviet authorities, but the government won’t disclose their names, nor tell what it plans to do with them.

Cairo:  CopticOrthodox Pope John XIX, head of Coptic Christians in Egypt, joins the worldwide protest against religious persecution in Russia, and calls for prayers for the salvation of the country.

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