confessions made by Petre Imbri and Haia Lifșiț, upon which he was detained in Oradea. Indicted in a trial held in Cluj, he claimed to have been bastinadoed as a means to obtain his own confession. Foriș began another hunger strike and, after 27 days, was released in the care of his family pending trial. He himself counted three more arrests for 1927–1928, including one which resulted in a 20-days stay at Jilava prison. As he himself reported, he made an illegal crossing into the Soviet Union, during May–June 1928, attending the 4th PCR Congress, which was held in the Ukrainian SSR. It resulted in Köblös's removal from his executive position; Foriș was reportedly offered a seat on the Central Committee, but refused the honor as too premature. Köblös's downfall was partly his own contribution, made possible when he attracted Luca into the opposition. He returned to Bucharest briefly, and was again on Soviet territory in September, when his Red Aid colleagues had him sent on a health vacation to Yalta. He then served as the exile cadre of the PCR and its representative to the Comintern (1928–1930). Foriș lived for a while in Kharkov, then Moscow, and eventually Berlin. He was tried in absentia by the Cluj tribunal, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment and to a 50,000 lei fine. The Romanian elections of December 1928 brought into power Iuliu Maniu, who decreed a general amnesty. Foriș caught news of this, and asked the Comintern to send him back to Romania. He could only return to Bucharest during in January 1930, when he was also co-opted by the Central Committee. Subsequently, Foriș served as Transylvanian secretary, and was selected head of the nation-wide agitprop section. He claimed to have personally edited for print the first issue of a core PCR newspaper, Scînteia (August 1931). The Soviet news agency, TASS, employed him and Loti as correspondents. He was taking part in the conflict opposing Marcel Pauker to Vitali "Barbu" Holostenco, as a conditional supporter of the latter, and expressing regret that the PCR was succumbing to "fractionism". In 1931, Nicolae Iorga and his Democratic Nationalists formed a new Romanian cabinet, which revised Maniu's liberal stances. Interpreting Iorga though the Comintern's grid, Foriș became convinced that the country was a "military fascist dictatorship". He later expressed regret over this misreading, which had caused "confusion in the party." Foriș lived most of