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Greek children had been "recruited for educational purposes." Markos agents were already negotiating with Balkan members of the Cominform, including Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, to provide homes for the recruits...
...July 13, 1940 Schulenburg reported: "In Stalin's opinion no power had the right to an exclusive role in the consolidation and leadership of the Balkan countries. The Soviet Union did not claim such a mission either...
Thus-last week began the third act of a romantic Balkan operetta which (thus far) had carried Rumania's 26-year-old King Michael and pretty Princess Anne Antoinette Franchise Charlotte of Bourbon-Parma through a lyrical, whirlwind courtship amidst the glitter of a British royal wedding and the dark second act of a Communist coup d'état in Bucharest...
...hours later, Dimitrov hustled off to Bucharest on a larger mission. Rumania's boss woman and fellow Communist, Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, gave him a welcome fit for a Balkan king. At his disposal was a palace just vacated by ex-King Michael's Aunt Elizabeth, who had decided to avoid Communist Ana's iron mop by following her nephew to Switzerland. Between champagne toasts and speeches brimming with declarations of love for Soviet Russia, Pauker and Dimitrov signed, in behalf of their countries, a 20-year pact of alliance...
...government would be set up and we would push on to Ioannina. There we would find the Anglo-American commission. We were to take them prisoner, tie them up, and take their clothes away," Dimitri explained. The "Anglo-American commission" seemed to mean the field team from the U.N. Balkan committee...