Word: bucharest
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...Countess Waldeck takes current history out of the funeral parlor and puts it into the Grand Hotel. Her book is as perversely engrossing, gossipy and gamy as a clandestine conversation in the lobby. Her Grand Hotel is the Athene Palace in Bucharest, "the last cosmopolitan stage on which post-World-War Europe and the new-order Europe made a joint appearance." Theme of her book is the murder of a nation-Rumania...
...notorious and wears a monocle. I was personally depressed last night to see him in Lisbon. The last time I saw him was in the Hotel Athénée Palace, Bucharest, just before the occupation of Rumania, and in the Hotel Serbski Kralj, Belgrade, before the attack on Yugoslavia...
Kept uninformed by Vichy censorship, the businessmen of French West Africa, Morocco and Algiers had little basis for comparison of their boom with recent booms in Oslo, Sofia, Bucharest, where tourism turned to swarms of Nazi soldiers...
...great majority of the Roumanians desire the defeat of Hitler. Letters from Bucharest, personal reports from people who have left the country after the war with Russia, support that conviction...
Said Germany: The city had no civilians save, babies and wounded. Losses were fantastic. Crowed young Mihai Antonescu in a victory broadcast from Bucharest: "The population received the German and Rumanian troops enthusiastically...