Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treaties provided for an 18 months' probation period, during which the Allied military missions in Budapest, Bucharest and Sofia were to watch, "in concert," the activities of the defeated nations. Last week, the probation period was up. The U.S. and Britain took the occasion to tell the world how the three Russian satellites respected their solemn obligations...
...Bucharest, Rumanians forgot for a moment the might of the Red army in the account of the latest U.S. super-super-super Flying Fortress. It was so huge that the pilot, hearing a noise behind him, had to dispatch a courier by motorcycle to locate the trouble. "Just a football game on the lower deck," came the report. Another ruckus. "A water polo match in the swimming pool." A terrific bang. "Now the boys are furious, sir," reported the messenger. "A Russian plane was trying to buzz us. It flew in through the window and crashed on the basketball court...
Also from Bucharest last week came another story (true), of a U.S. diplomat who had some business to conduct with a high-ranking official of Rumania's heavily guarded Ministry of the Interior. After several unsuccessful attempts, he finally managed to work his way into the imposing white ministry building, and past innumerable guards, to the top floor. There stood two doors with a hardboiled, armed member of the security police posted before each one. The American showed his credentials to the guard at the first door, who looked him over suspiciously and disappeared into the official...
...many drunks on Saturday night; Ana has had to transform two theaters into prisons. Among those arrested: beautiful Florica Bagdasar, Minister of Public Health; General Michael Lascar of Pauker's own Tudor Vladimirescu division; General Constantin Ionescu, chief of the General Staff; Constantin Doncea, deputy mayor of Bucharest, colonel in the Red army, member of the Communist Central Committee, and Pauker's old comrade. Said she: "Doncea fell into petty bourgeois habits ... I advise all Communists not to sleep on their glory, and take heed from this lesson...
...prim these days. Last June, in a discussion of plans for receiving Hungary's Premier Lajos Dinnyes, Ana said: "I've heard Dinnyes likes to have girls presented to him. This won't happen in Bucharest; I don't approve of official assignations." Hungarian Communists, hurt by Ana's attitude, say that Comrade Dinnyes found his own girls without any help from Comrade Pauker...