Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BUCHAREST--Rumania was understood tonight to have informed Great Britain and France that she is reconciled to "more or less" entering the orbit of German influence despite whatever promises of strong support might be forthcoming from the western powers...
...Rumanian Fascists (Iron Guards) used to do their killings with bombs and rifles made in secret arsenals. Their organization outlawed, their top leaders shot, the Iron Guards were discovered last week to have been not only hatching new plots but making new weapons. When a German-owned factory near Bucharest was raided, it was found that under an army lieutenant a crew of workmen, chauffeurs and students was making flamethrowers that would burn a foe to a crisp at 100 yards. Green shirts said they had planned to take over the Government "even if we had to burn down Bucharest...
Christmas in pastoral Bessarabia is visiting time. This Christmas a bitter, blizzardy Rumanian winter swept down off the Carpathians but the quaint railway cars that spin from Kishinev down to Galatz, Braila and Bucharest were thronged with festive, gaily-cloaked peasants visiting from village to village. East of Galatz two holiday trains sped along the winding, single-track line in a blinding storm. Someone had blundered, for they were running head on toward each other. Near Reni they crashed. For hours the dying lay with the dead in the heaping snow while rescue trains ploughed through from Galatz. Late Christmas...
Dumped one night last week into a big hole inside bleak Jilava Fortress, near Bucharest, were the bullet-ridden bodies of 14 leaders of the Iron Guard, Rumania's suppressed, German-financed party. No one else was present when soldiers shoveled the last spadeful of cold dirt over the corpses of the young fanatics who had banded together in a Jew-baiting, terrorist group to oust the Government and set up a Nazi State in Rumania...
Peeved at having to return virtually emptyhanded, Carol and the Crown Prince canceled tentative plans for a longer private stay, headed back to Bucharest. On the way the King was expected to call on Chancellor Hitler and German economic experts, who will probably lose no time in reminding him that a recent German offer to develop Rumanian oil fields and purchase Rumania's entire wheat crop for the next two years, in exchange for German manufactured goods, still stands. But they have no money to lend...