Word: antonescu
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...Beer-Hall Putsch. Last week the King might cower in his great creamy palace on Calea Victoriei while the mob screamed and the Iron Guard fired shots in the air, but the rioting never got beyond Army control. It was the Army's redheaded General Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu who suddenly emerged on top of the pile at Bucharest...
...reaching the Royal Palace General Antonescu began a series of showdown sessions with His Majesty which left both of them scarcely a wink of sleep for 48 hours. It is hard to pry an obstinate king in the prime of life off even a shaky throne, and Red Dog, between irate sessions with His Majesty, conferred with Rumanian leaders of all parties and groups -Peasant, Liberal and Iron Guard-as well as with the diplomatic representatives of Hitler and Mussolini. The German Minister conferred with the Russian Minister. Stress tugged at counter-stress, hypocrite smiled on hypocrite, the mob howled...
...drink, the diplomats spiked Mussolini's hopes by reaffirming their policy of sticking together, approving a hands-off policy in Spain, dodging the question of recognition of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia, and loudly restating their loyalty to the League of Nations. Rumania's Foreign Minister Victor Antonescu went out of his way to state...
...customary in Rumania to tell the truth publicly about matters of high policy and everyone gave new Rumanian Foreign Minister Victor Antonescu full credit for lying like a diplomat when he announced: "I retain complete confidence in the statesmanship of France, and I intend to retain cultural relations with Rus-sia." It would surprise no Rumanian if King Carol should break off with Joseph Stalin the diplomatic relations established between Russia and Rumania by M. Titulescu. With Nazi influence mounting at Bucharest the Jewish mistress of the King, red-haired Magda Lupescu, found her position last week greatly altered...