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When Rumania was "liberated" by the Red army, Colonel Ana Pauker returned with her regiment to the country from whose squalor and jails she had risen. She proceeded to return evil for evil-and, in true Communist fashion, evil for good. Because she wanted to play along with his Liberal Party for a while, she left Tata-rescu, who had jailed her, in the Foreign Ministry for two years; but Maniu, who had helped her, she clapped into prison. Said she: "In his old age, Maniu has earned his rest." Maniu is now dying, still behind bars...
Friendship Week. Stalin's problem-and Ana's-was how to bind Rumania to Moscow by means more subtle and less costly than the Red army. Complicating factors were the anti-Communist and anti-Russian feelings, of the Rumanian people. One day in 1945 Ana Pauker's great & good friend Vishinsky flew to Bucharest. He insisted that Pietru Groza be made Premier...
...since Casanova and the finest figure of a man since Lionel Strongfort. At 64 he runs three miles before breakfast every day. He likes to have his bodyguard, who always carries a Luger, referee his tennis matches. Groza cheats, and his opponents rarely argue. Nevertheless, Groza is putty in Ana's hands. He goes to Mme. Pauker before leaving official functions and asks: "Do you still need...
Vishinsky observed Ana's hold on Groza. When he left Rumania, Vishinsky said: "I feel very lighthearted...
Housecleaning. A woman's work (and a Communist's) is never done. Ana has a lot of new worries. One is what Rumania's former masters, the Turks, called baksheesh. Said one Rumanian when the Reds took power: "The only honest government Rumania can have is one that has been in power long enough to give everyone a chance to fill his pockets. It's only after a Rumanian official has made enough money through graft to buy a house, educate his children, and keep a mistress or two, that he feels he can afford...