Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watch on Bucharest. With no waste of time, the U.S. and Britain let Moscow know that they disliked the smell of the Government set up in Bucharest last fortnight by the Kremlin's fixer, Andrei Januari Vishinsky (TIME, March...
...puffy, spectacled man with a nervous tic in the left cheek and a shock of unruly grey hair arrived unexpectedly in Bucharest, from Moscow. Andrei Januari Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, looked more than ever like an absentminded, amiable professor. But the Kremlin's ace trouble-shooter - and the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow Old Bolshevik trials - had not come out of absentmindedness...
...Democratic National Front - a thickset, moonfaced Transylvanian in the early 60s, whose large inherited land holdings qualified him to head the Ploughmen's Front. Until last year Groza was a small-time Balkan politician who made headlines when two angry landlords beat him up in the foyer of Bucharest's Athenee Palace Hotel...
Russia's news blackout of Rumania was pierced again last week by rifle flashes and the suggestion of muffled cries, scudding feet and bodies thudding in the dark. From Bern, Switzerland, New York Timesnum Daniel T. Brigham reported somewhat luridly that in Bucharest Communists had attacked the Royal Palace, other State buildings. Communist outbreaks were said to have taken place also in Brasov, Craiova and Caracal. The Red Army took no part in the fighting...
...midnight broadcast Radio Bucharest reported that "the Government at present is master of the situation." (Earlier Radio Bucharest reported that a political assassin had tried, but failed, to kill Premier General Nicolai Radescu...