Word: antonescu
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...batch of 25 high Rumanian officers and officials. It was headed by ex-Premier General Constantin Sanatescu, formerly King Mihai's aide-de-camp. On the night of the coup d'état which overthrew the pro-Axis Government, General Sanatescu helped the King imprison Dictator Ion Antonescu in a vault built for ex-King Carol's stamp collection. Later, Sanatescu formed the first pro-Allied Government...
...could, he got back inside the Fortress: in Bulgaria he watched a Russian division moving up to battle, a sight rarely witnessed by U.S. newsmen. In Rumania he lunched with young King Mihai and Queen Helen, got the King's own story of how he had trapped Antonescu. En route back to Turkey he joined the British troops clearing the Nazis out of their Aegean outposts...
...also prepared its "People's Courts" and firing squads. From a list of 2,000 "war criminals," the Rumanian Government selected a first installment of 100 generals, politicians _ and officials to be tried this week. Heading the list was Rumania's former Dictator and Premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu. When Russia strong-armed Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Rumania, ten months after the Moscow-Berlin pact (1939), Marshal Antonescu eagerly clasped Hitler's eagerly proffered hand, was unable to unclasp it in time...
Also included were foppish, swaggering Vice Premier Mihai Antonescu (no kin), who was as bitterly anti-Russian as his namesake; General Konstantin Voiculescu, ex-Governor of Bessarabia, who was given to hanging rebellious peasants or drowning them in their wells...
Rumania's General Ion Antonescu & friends, and Germany's economic expert Karl Clodius, had already disappeared into Russian jails. Glad to be rid of the embarrassment, his country had now gleefully handed over the former Rumanian dictator, who would presumably be held for a great trial of war criminals...