Word: antonescu
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...bolster the authority of pro-Axis Premier Ion Antonescu, fresh batches of Gestapo agents arrived in Bucharest. Temporarily as in neighboring Bulgaria (TiME, Jan. 10), the Nazi hold might be strong enough to prevent outright defection. But neither the Nazis nor the orders of the quisling Premier could halt Rumania's rising panic...
...Moscow radio beamed an appeal of the Free German committee to the German people to overthrow Hitler. "Mussolini is the first to go, but he will not be the last ally of Hitler's to desert the sinking ship. In Budapest . . . the same will soon happen. Mannerheim and Antonescu also...
...Emerging from a long silence, the disbanded political parties of Rumania addressed King Mihai: Rumania is on the threshold of collapse, they said; Dictator Ion Antonescu is responsible. His policy lost us independence and the sacred soil of Transylvania...
Rumanian Paradox. Still clinging to the Germans is Rumania's Dictator Ion Antonescu. But the Rumanians' sickening losses in Russia have aroused violent opposition. Jails are crammed with 200,000 political prisoners...
...Rumanians are also worried by their neighbors and territorial rivals, Hungary and Bulgaria. According to one report, Dictator Antonescu's nephew, Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu, recently threatened to resign with the entire Cabinet unless enough Rumanian troops were withdrawn from Russia to defend the Bulgarian frontier. Rumania has already lost part of Transylvania to Hungary...