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General Ion Antonescu stood on a green hill overlooking Odessa, German binoculars fixed on a covey of his Rumanian Army planes that were blanketing the city with leaflets. Back in Bucharest, Nephew Mihai, now Acting Premier in the General's absence, waited anxiously . for news of Uncle Ion's first major assignment from his Nazi bosses...
...Bucharest and Stockholm, it was reported that the great $110,000,000, 140-foot Dnieper Dam near Zaporozhe had been blown up by the retreating Russians. The step would be logical, since the highway atop the dam was one of the best bridges across the river, and since the flood below would reinforce the river as a scarp against the Nazis...
Died. Prince George Valentine Bibesco, 61, pioneer flier; in Bucharest. He was the 20th man to receive an international pilot's license, commanded the Rumanian Air Force in the Balkan war of 1913, bombed his own country's oil fields for the Rumanian general staff as an ally of Britain in World War I. For the past eleven years he had been president of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale...
Waiting on the Portuguese side of the frontier for Carol and Magda was the ex-King's Portuguese business agent, Augusto Lopez Joly. In Lisbon waited the foppish, oily, hand-kissing familiar of Madame Lupescu, M. Ernest Urdarianu who served Carol in Bucharest as Grand Chamberlain. Out of rebuilding Bucharest the King, Lupescu and Urdarianu reputedly cleaned up a king's ransom, and in Bucha rest there is some demand that at least Lupescu and Urdarianu be hanged...
...Bucharest, shaken by earthquake and massacres within a month...