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...depended on her for life, bread and spiritual guidance. She had moved a long way from the grimy Bucharest street where her father had first taught her the stern Old Testament notions of good & evil; she had abandoned the jealous God of her fathers for another faith. She was Ana Rabinsohn Pauker, a Communist, and a key figure in the struggle for the world...
...spent nearly all her life in mean dwellings and six years of it in Rumanian jails. Now she lives in three great houses, moving almost every night because she fears assassins. (Scores of other Rumanians shift their sleeping quarters from night to night because they fear Ana's secret police.) One of her houses belonged to Prince Brancoveanu. One belonged to Nicolae Malaxa, big industrialist and speculator. And one belonged to red-haired Magda Lupescu, ex-King Carol's mistress and now his wife...
...Ana has replaced them all. The power of the aristocrats, the industrialists, the royal playboys and the royal concubines has passed into her hands. She runs Rumania. Her title is Foreign Minister, but her job is that of Stalin's proconsul. Of the seven telephones on her office desk one is said to be a direct line to the Kremlin. Asked if she had permission to call Stalin at any hour, Ana answered: "When the occasion arises, I can reach...
...Women Who Hate & Follow. She did not attain her power as Lupescu did, nor in the way the suffragettes dreamed of in Ana's youth. She came up through 30 fighting years in the Communist Party, to which she contributed great courage and a good, if not brilliant mind. Her chief offering, however, was a blind loyalty which stood every test, including the party's purge of her husband...
...belongs to that extraordinary band of Red Amazons who serve the top Red bosses. They are great followers, great haters, qualities the party prizes more & more. Some of Ana's fellow Amazons...