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Probably no Communist will ever play the villain's role as sensationally as the late Lavrenty Beria of Moscow. But in Bucharest last week, Moscow's Rumanian satellites staged a highly professional road-show version of the melodrama, and the lead was played in fine style by Vasile Luca, a Hungarian from Transylvania who climbed from a locksmith's shop to a Communist education in Moscow and up to the posts of Deputy Premier, Finance Minister and No. 3 Red in postwar Rumania. Purged in 1952, Luca has since been in prison. Last week Bucharest announced that...
Steinberg was born 40 years ago near Bucharest. His father manufactured fancy boxes for toilet articles and his mother made cakes with elaborate icings that he recalls, were "too beautiful to eat." Steinberg spent seven years studying architecture in Milan before finally giving in to his own inherited taste for lighthearted art. He found it no work at all to whip up drawings that were usually biting, and sometimes skirted close to the beautiful as well. Commissions for The New Yorker helped bring him to Manhattan...
...children of a "capitalist," they were refused further education, and set, under police supervision, to learning trades. In 1952 they were moved to another village, put to farm labor. But in March both the boys and their grandmother were freed and taken to Bucharest. Costa and Peter got travel certificates and were finally delivered to the U.S. legation...
...thousand Jews jammed the streets of Red Bucharest in front of the new Israeli legation on Valentine's Day 1949, dancing and crying "Long live Israel." After 15 years of Fascist pogroms and four more of Communist misery, the exhilarating dream of the promised land had suddenly become a reality. Thousands sold their last belongings to buy fantastically priced exit permits and steamship tickets, bade goodbye to their children and set forth to Israel, empty-handed but hopeful. By the end of 1951, when the Reds suddenly ordered a stop to emigration, 120,000 of Rumania...
Last week, invited to the forbidden city of Bucharest to report a Congress of the World Federation of Democratic Youth,† four Western newsmen got their first interview in five years with the Foreign Minister, and asked about the canal. His answer: "The material and moral forces of the people should be concentrated on those works that will most rapidly raise their living standards. The continuation or discontinuation of work on the canal is not essential." In other words, work on the canal had been dropped, and the reason given fitted in with the Kremlin's big switch from...