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...belonged there. So Rumanians thought it strange that she liked so much to have Bulgarian calla lilies around her Balcic house and that she insisted on having them tended by Bulgarian gardeners. In her will Queen Marie devised that though her body should rest in the royal crypt near Bucharest, her heart should be enshrined at Balcic, which she hoped would always be Rumanian soil...
Between Sofia and Bucharest a commuter sped last week-heavy Victor Cadere, Rumanian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, close friend of King Carol II. He was chosen to negotiate the Bulgarian claims because as Ambassador to Belgrade he had earned the warm friendship of the then Bulgarian Ambassador, Ivan Popoff, who is now Bulgaria's Foreign Minister. From Popoff to his King, from King to Popoff, Ambassador Cadere went, now with a warning, now with a concession, begging the retention of the important city of Silistra, asking reparations for public works. At a moment when Rumania seemed to stiffen, Hungary ominously...
...week's end Bucharest announced it had accepted "in principle" the cession of southern Dobruja. This week Bulgaria's Minister to Moscow Ivan Stamenoff flew home, occasioning suspicions that Russia was disturbed - presumably because Bulgaria was submitting to Axis pressure and not demanding the whole of Dobruja and therefore a common frontier with Russia. Bulgarians and Rumanians worked meantime on details of their Axis-sponsored agreement. One detail on which the Bulgarians were reported to have been softhearted: they agreed that the shrine where the heart of Queen Marie reposes should be surrounded by a little plot...
Over the Dnestr bridge and down from Galicia, the Red Army poured on schedule.It moved so fast that it soon caught up with retreating Rumanian soldiers. Rumanians who stopped to argue were shot. While King Carol ordered full mobilization to resist a Hungarian threat to his western frontier, Bucharest buzzed with rumors that the Red Army had overstepped its mark and was pouring into Old Rumania. Baby tanks crawled out of pregnant Red Army planes at Reni on the Danube, overcame the Rumanian garrison there before it could unstack its arms.* Presently, isolated units of the Rumanian Army began...
...surprising that the German Legation at Bucharest was surprised at the Russian grab. Germany had already recognized Russia's claim to Bessarabia and would hardly have objected, even though King Carol had gone Nazi in a belated effort to get German protection (TIME, July 1). Both Berlin and Rome professed disinterest in what Russia was doing, blamed any agitation about it on a British plot to open an eastern front. Germany insisted that she would not be drawn into any Balkan adventure now and Italy told Hungary and Bulgaria not to press their claims against Rumania. But Berlin hinted...