Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Bucharest TIME's Correspondent Percival Knauth cabled...
There is no doubt about the sincerity of pro-Allied sentiment in Rumania. But toward Russia the attitude of Rumanians has gone from bad to better to worse. Before the Russians entered Bucharest, the people were plain scared. The Red Army entered the city and quietly passed through, leaving small contingents behind...
Seven relieved Rumanians bowed out of the Kremlin last week, headed cheerfully back to Bucharest. They carried a signed armistice which the world considered generous. Rumania was officially out of her war against the Allies, into an approved war against Germany and Hungary. She had a promise of the return of northern Transylvania if she did her part in recapturing that rich, disputed region from the Hungarians...
...King motored from Bucharest to the meeting, with his mother. After two hours he turned his car off the road at a gasoline dump. A German motorized column came into sight. The royal party jumped into their car and hurried off just as the Germans opened fire. Bullets flew back & forth for a few minutes before the King raced out of the danger zone...
...Comité des Ecrivains (authors' association) publicly denounced: Paul Morand, ex-Vichy Ambassador to Bucharest; pro-German Novelists Jean Giono, Louis Ferdinand Céline (Louis Destouches), Journalists Henry de Montherlant, Jacques Chardonne...