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...BUCHAREST-Hundreds of Iron Guard rebels were herded before a court martial today, many condemned to death for last week's rebellion, as Premier General Ion Antoneseu announced that he will swing Rumania into "closer community" with the Rome-Berlin axis...
...July he took a trip to Bucharest, dropped in to see Mititza Constantinescu, Finance Minister and Governor of the Rumanian National Bank. To Mititza, Sosthenes' story was familiar and sad. In 1930 I. T. & T. had paid $7,678,000 for 88% of the capital stock in Rumanian Telephone Co., which then had 50,000 telephones installed and terrible service. By 1940 the subscribers had risen to 102,268; the company was making $1,500,000 a year (20% on its original investment). But I. T. & T., because of exchange restrictions, got only pocket change. To Mititza & Sosthenes...
Military experts in Bucharest believed that the recent German troop movements were in preparation for a drive in the spring. There were, however, unconfirmed reports that German troops several days ago had entered Bulgaria and seized some mountain passes...
Monster Grunts. Soviet Russia, vapid monster in the East, emitted troubled grunts but nothing more. Four times her minister in Bucharest called at the Foreign Office to protest. First against the "atti tude, of the Rumanian press," then the "campaign labeling all Rumanian criminals as Communists," then the "general unfriendly Rumanian attitude." On his fourth visit he demanded that impotent Rumania explain the presence of the in creasing Nazi hordes and give an immediate answer to his other protests. Reports that 30 crack Soviet divisions had ar rived in Bessarabia to counter Hitler's Army, and that the region...
...perhaps for this purpose that Hitler replaced his scholarly ambassador in Bucharest, Dr. Wilhelm Fabricius, with a brash terrorist, Baron Manfred von Killinger, whose record is one of the bloodiest in Nazidom's unsavory history. Active since 1920 as a plotter, gunman, Putschist and purger, he served briefly as Consul General in San Francisco, scored impressive success in reducing Slovakia to submission. As Gauleiter of Rumania, the Baron could be expected to exhibit those arts of discipline for which he is notorious...