Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in Bucharest, this champion hater faced a treason charge before a military tribunal of King Carol's officers. Charged with plotting to kidnap His Majesty and set up a Fascist state with himself as Führer and Adolf Hitler as an ally, Leader Codreanu was found guilty, sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Balkan justice being what it is, Leader Codreanu was considered to have got off lightly. In the complex fabric of Balkan politics, however, the sentence did mean that King Carol was taking no nonsense from Nazis or Nazi friends...
...Carol II cracked down with all his royal might on the anti-Semitic Iron Guard. In particular His Majesty's titian-haired Jewish Pompadour, Mme Magda Lupescu, who had to flee Rumania when anti-Semitism recently burst out, was highly delighted. She was expected soon to return to Bucharest. Meanwhile the King's forces worked day & night last week, arresting anti-Semites and piling them into Rumanian jails. They were accused of being "anti-Rumanian," and Carol II let it be known that the probable form of Government in Rumania for the immediate future is Military Dictatorship...
Because the largest Bucharest hotel, Athenée Palace, has been the political headquarters of the National Peasant Party, it has now been ordered closed by Dictator Carol "for ten years." That the Orthodox Patriarch & Premier is little more than a stooge for His Majesty was evident when it was found that the King's men had arrested, among 1,500 suspects of various sorts, 200 Orthodox priests...
...Bucharest last week the seven-week-old emergency Cabinet, organized by bosky-bearded Patriarch Miron Cristea when King Carol made himself Dictator (TIME, Feb. 21), was quietly reshuffled. The galaxy of six former Premiers, who as his Ministers without Portfolio lent their prestige to Dictator Carol in the crisis, dropped out of the Cabinet last week, were replaced by a line-up of lacklustre politicians and yes-men, of whom Rumania has many. As Stooge No. 1 the 69-year-old Patriarch was again sworn in as Premier...
...show neutral correspondents his official Soviet diplomatic identity papers and Soviet police identity card, each bearing his likeness confirmed by Moscow's official stamp. By last week the Rumanian Government had also compared the Rome pictures of Butenko with pictures of this New Bolshevik in its files at Bucharest, verified the likeness. Further, the Rumanian Government affirmed that a letter from the Rome Butenko attesting that he "fled voluntarily" and was "not kidnapped" is in the same handwriting as that of the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires who was on duty in Bucharest. There does not seem...