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...Nazis' Bucharest radio was loudly urging the Russians to make a separate peace. Said the broadcaster in Russian: "Stalin is trying to prolong the war by promising his people help from the Allies. But the Russians have now seen that the Allies do not intend to give serious aid. The Anglo-American press openly repudiates all promises of further assistance; consequently the Russian people have grown angry, feeling they have been duped. Further extension of the war is nothing less than suicide for Russia...
...sseldorf's turn came on a moonless night last week. Three nights later it was Bremen's. Simultaneously Soviet bombers ranged over eastern Europe, attacking Königsberg in East Prussia, Bucharest and Rumania's Ploesti oil fields...
This is the first time Walter Graebner has been to Russia, but Russia is almost the only place in Europe where he has not been since he started work for TIME in 1931. He has followed the news into Warsaw, Berlin. Prague, Paris, Budapest, Bucharest. He has interviewed newsmakers in Rome, Barcelona, Lisbon, Istanbul, Ankara, Jerusalem, Cairo...
...exile was no novelty to George II. In & out of the pepperpot politics of pre-World War II Greece, he had spent twelve years in more or less bored exile in Bucharest and London—a small-scale royal life of fast cars, lovely ladies, Mayfair clubs and divorce. In 1935 he was taken back to his throne in Athens. Five years later war rolled down his rocky peninsula. George stayed with his people to the end, fled only at the last moment...
...face of a seal and breathed very loudly through his short nose." The old men were very cordial while the seal kissed the Countess' hand with "very moist lips." But as soon as he moved on, Bratianu-beard said: "Voila le gigolo le phis dangereux de Bucharest." All his friends in high Rumanian society knew, said the Old Excellencies, that "he lived on women and blackmail" and "worked for Moruzov's Secret Police." Nearly everybody in the Athene Palace worked for Moruzov, they said, from waiters and washroom attendants to "the apple-cheeked page boys . . . and, of course...