Word: antonescu
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...fingernails, drinking quantities of sweet champagne. Cedric Salter, Istanbul correspondent of the London Daily Express, wrote that he got the description from an unnamed participant in recent conferences to which the Führer had summoned four satellites (King Boris of Bulgaria, Admiral Nicholas Horthy of Hungary, Marshal Ion Antonescu of Rumania and Croat Puppet Ante Pavelich). The dispatch added...
Rumania. Back from Hitler's field headquarters last week came Premier Ion Antonescu after a one-day session with Adolf and several of his top-flight generals. According to reports from Bern, Hitler refused to lighten his demands for Rumanian troops, otherwise help Antonescu preserve his tottering regime. Instead, Hitler reportedly demanded more Rumanian petroleum and troops, less noise. In Geneva last week was pro-British Grigore Gafencu, onetime Rumanian Foreign Minister, the logical man to extend any peace overtures to Allied representatives...
...Antonescu's arrests and executions were not to crush an Iron Guard Putsch. Rumania's uprising was spontaneous and was spreading through all classes. It was led by agitators belonging particularly to the Communist and Peasant parties. Perhaps many disillusioned Iron Guardists joined...
...those arrested was democratic, anti-Axis Juliu Maniu, leader of an increasingly powerful peasants' movement in Rumania. Probably most of the others jailed by Antonescu were not Iron Guardists, but antiFascists...
Rumania's claim to be a state capable of keeping law & order, even totalitarian law & order, clearly hung by fewer threads than ever. Only five Rumanian divisions and a German force of less than a division remained to prevent anarchy. That was not all Antonescu had to worry about last week. German Ambassador Baron Manfred von Killinger was reported to have told him: "A situation might arise when Rumania will have to face the menace of a Russian invasion...