Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overtime to keep filling up the constantly depleted ranks. Through this forcing house for New Bolshevik talent, Russia's Proletarian Writer Fedor Butenko was put with such speed that two months ago, only two years after he matriculated, he was in full command of the Soviet legation at Bucharest, Rumania as Chargé d'Affaires. His unfortunate superior, the Soviet Minister, had just "disappeared...
...Meanwhile, the Soviet Secret Political Police, who operate strictly on their own, were closing in upon Butenko at the very time when all Rumania was in ferment because of the Goga Cabinet collapse (TIME, Feb. 21). When the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires suddenly "disappeared" one night in Bucharest, the local Soviet Tass news agency man concluded that Rumanian Fascists had kidnapped or murdered New Bolshevik Butenko. In Moscow this news electrified Old Bolshevik Litvinoff. Showing his Stalinist zeal, he ordered rushed off three hot notes in succession to the Rumanian Government, demanded that they rescue Butenko from Fascist...
...Balkans a monarch must often act with vigor if he expects to stay King, and at Bucharest last week Carol von Hohenzollern suddenly made himself as much a Dictator as was his brother-in-law, the late King Alexander of Yugoslavia, assassinated at Marseille (TIME. Oct. 15, 1934, et seq.). Carol II has long hankered after the absolutism of his Hohenzollern kinsman Wilhelm II. Last week's crisis broke after Premier Octavian Goga received two heavy blows: 1) his entire slate of anti-Semitic decrees was declared unconstitutional; and 2) a brawl in which Goga's own political...
...Warsaw, 4 Moscow, 5 Bucharest...
...shall be most grateful if you can obtain full publicity for the declaration I want to give you now," said Rumania's silky-mannered new Poet-Premier Octavian Goga to George Eric Rowe Gedye of the New York Times in Bucharest last week. "The Jewish problem is an old one here, and it is a Rumanian tragedy. Briefly, we have far too many Jews...