Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Important hitch in the plan, however, was that Prince Carol, who after all had to do the proposing, balked. Then 20 years old, for five years he had been allowed by indulgent parents to taste the pleasures of Bucharest, and already he was beginning to show decided independence in his choice of women. Instead of making up to the rather plain, high-cheek-boned Grand Duchess Olga, he took a fancy to the prettier and more vivacious Grand Duchess Tatiana, the Tsar's second oldest daughter. Since this was not on the schedule, the matchmakers called the whole affair...
...gathering crisis hung stormily over Bucharest last week and Rumanians learned what it was to face a war of nerves. Abruptly called home for a diplomatic council of war were the Kingdom's envoys to Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria. Of these, astute Vasile Stoica, Ambassador to Turkey, had most to contribute to the question which last week preoccupied all Eastern European statesmen: Will the Soviet Union, fresh from sharing in the partition of Poland and successful in extending "spheres of influence" over the Baltic States, now attempt similar expansionist moves in the Balkans...
...only for Turkey but also as "honest broker" for Rumania in the touchy question of Bessarabia, the rich province which Rumania seized from Russia in 1918. Last week, after King Carol had received full particulars of what Ambassador Stoica had been able to learn from the Turkish Foreign Minister, Bucharest bigwigs gloomed and the New York Times's correspondent observed that "the news Stoica brought from Ankara is not good...
...week the armies of Soviet Russia, Bulgaria and Hungary, all mobilized along their frontiers with Rumania. Each of these States lost huge slices of territory to Rumania by the peace treaties which wound up World War I, and each was all set to take advantage of any collapse at Bucharest...
...Balkans as "Protector of the Slave." It was this role which brought her into World War I against Austria and then Germany. In World War II, the Soviet Government has been rapidly swallowing Polish territory while describing itself as "neutral." Last week Moscow, in an official declaration to Bucharest, declared that so far as Rumania is concerned Russia will remain "neutral." Many Rumanians believed that the speed with which the U. S. S. R. nipped in and took southern Poland before Germany could do so, thus keeping the Reich from getting a common frontier with Rumania, also nipped what...