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Hopeful of opening direct channels of communication with art movements in the satellite countries, the Whitney Museum had sent some 300 copies of the book overseas addressed to museums and individual artists. From Warsaw and Cracow, Budapest and Szeged, Prague, Zatec and Bucharest came a stream of letters, catalogues, books and even original drawings and engravings from artists who wished to reciprocate the Whitney's gesture. The letters were scrupulously nonpolitical. Nearly all had two points in common: 1) unstinting praise for the book, and 2) surprise that American painting was so good. One Rumanian intellectual, unreported for years...
...cold afternoon in February 1945, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky buzzed into Bucharest, bustled over to the palace of 24-year-old King Michael and banged out a desk-thumping ultimatum: fire the non-Communist government, install a pro-Communist regime-or sovereign Rumania would cease to exist. With Soviet troops in control of the country and no hope of help from Britain or the U.S., young Michael capitulated. The Kremlin's choice as Premier: Plowman Groza. A year later Groza helped the Communists undo the promises of Yalta for free elections by arranging an elaborately rigged election which...
...patch the dike of Communist unity, he charged off to Prague, to East Berlin, to Bucharest, received one satellite delegation after another in the Kremlin. He offered loans here, concessions there. "You like workers' councils? Take them. We won't criticize you," he said in a speech to the Czechs...
...Czechoslovakia has been slow at reforming itself, got busy immediately. Rumania's Party Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej last week fired from his Politburo two oldtime Stalinists-Minister of Education Miron Constantinescu and Central Committee Secretary Iosif Chisinevschi, long No. 2 man to Gheorghiu-Dej himself. The expulsions, announced Bucharest smugly, took place at a Rumanian party plenum which ended only 48 hours after the downfall of Molotov...
...Ljuba got her husband the fat job of food-procurement officer for the Soviet army of occupation in 1946. Chisinevschi quickly moved up the power line and today, by virtue of his wife's cozy relations with the Soviet embassy, bosses the government. In a beautiful pavilion near Bucharest, in the formal royal park where King Carol's Magda Lupescu once frolicked, attractive, dark-eyed Ljuba holds brilliant Thursday night soirees, splicing her champagne with politics...