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...Named Joseph. But as the Greek army, with the help of U.S. General James Van Fleet, smashed at the hard-pressed Communist guerrillas in the mountains, Niko and his Roula returned to the safety and comfort of Communist Bucharest, where they set themselves up in an apartment next to Stalin Park in the fashionable diplomatic district. From the safety of Rumania Niko kept control of the Greek Communist Party, while Roula, as head of the women's department, beamed radio appeals to the Red underground. It was a fine life. They toured satellite Europe in a limousine driven...
...Moscow he was told to report to the Soviet consulate in Bucharest; he reported twice, waited for weeks but got no orders. In Belgrade he met one contact (who wore one glove and carried one as proof of identity), then lost track. "It just went up in the air," he testified. In Ankara he reported to "Madame," a Soviet embassy official whom he met at a ball. "I got to know her very well," he testified, but he could not remember her name. When he finally broke off with Madame and the party in March 1942, Burdett related, "she acted...
While Radio Bucharest filled the air with Chargés that the four were paid U.S. agents, the Swiss were more inclined to accept the judgment of Father Seckinger: "They are all ardent Rumanian patriots and idealists. They hoped by their action to draw attention to the awful state of "affairs in Rumania under the Communist regime." Booking the four men for manslaughter (not murder), Swiss police did not make their names public, and categorically refused to hand them over to the Communists for extradition to Rumania. Whether the audacious young masked men had found anything incriminating, Swiss police would...
...would have killed him because such a thought is treason against our country," said Maria. "Now I only want to go back to Rumania as fast as possible, [because] I might be kidnaped by the Danish police like my husband." A few days later she was flown back to Bucharest...
...Eastern front in World War I, bundled Zizi into a staff car, and eloped with her across the Russian border. In a Russian Orthodox church at Odessa they were married on Aug. 31, 1918. After the honeymoon, Carol's father, King Ferdinand, hauled his son back to Bucharest and sent Carol's bride into house arrest at a royal estate...