Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumania's Premier Petru Groza got U.S. and British notes, charging that Rumania had failed to live up to the Moscow agreements-had censored stories critical of Communists, had not scheduled free elections. Police broke into the American Military Mission headquarters in Bucharest and arrested all Russian civilian employes. Groza issued a routine denial of the U.S. charges, added a priceless promise: "The elections will take place when our barns are full...
...nation should be able to direct the state, and every cook should be able to govern. Democracy in the Soviet Union is in fact the participation of tens of millions of peoples in the government." Vishinsky does not always discuss democracy in such exalted terms. Recently in Bucharest he was asked privately how he thought Rumania would go in a completely free election between the Communist-dominated Government parties and the opposition. He pondered a bit, replied: "In completely free elections, about 40% for the Government." Then he smiled cynically: "But with just the littlest bit of pressure-we would...
Died. Prince Barbu Stirbey, 73, "the man behind the palace curtains," longtime intrigued (by Queen Marie) and intriguing (for her) undercover man of old-style Rumanian politics, negotiator of Rumania's surprise armistice in 1944; in Bucharest...
...Bucharest, Andrica had put a notice in several Rumanian papers that he was anxious to meet relatives and friends of Cleveland people. That started a forlorn parade to his room at the Athenee Palace Hotel. In a fortnight he plodded through 675 interviews, and the pattern was the same as in Belgrade and Prague, Nürnberg and Trieste. Wept hollow-cheeked Bertha Lutwak: "Tell my uncle in Cincinnati I am in great need." Attorney Dumitru Ellenes had a sad message for his brother-in-law: "Our family was deported to Austria; only our sister Helen returned alive...
...Foreign Ministers had directed, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky, U.S. Ambassador William Averell Harriman and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr hurried to Bucharest to put into effect the new deal in the Balkans. These three, of all the millions who cared, would be the first to discover whether the Moscow conference had been a genuine advance over London, or just a meeting with a friendlier "tone...