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...biggest public improvements promised the people by the Rumanian People's Democracy was to be the 50-mile-long, 200-ft.-wide Danube-Black Sea Canal, a project long dreamed of by Russian czars, British promoters and Bucharest businessmen. It would cut 170 miles off the route, allow deep-draught Red vessels to sail into Europe's heart, and reclaim by irrigation the vast, poor Dobruja plain through which it flowed...
...Other Half. Two months later, Magda was back in Bucharest. In a quiet villa on the Alea Elisa Filipescu, she raised white turkeys; in the palace, she raised hell. "The rope for this vampire who stands between the crown and the country!" read a clandestine manifesto. For Rumania, Magda was wrong from every point of view. Her mother had been a Viennese dancer; she herself had been baptized in the Catholic Church and, if that was not enough in a non-Catholic and anti-Semitic country, her father had been a Jewish apothecary. But Carol would not give...
...Rumania, Hungary and Poland, many celebrated the event by covertly hoisting a few drinks. In Budapest the Reds herded some 500,000 into newly renamed Stalin Square on Dozsa György Ut for a mass demonstration of grief; but the crowd responded only with passive sullenness. In Bucharest there was thinly concealed satisfaction on the faces of Rumanians in the street, and a flurry of minor panic among Communist officials. Cars came & went in a steady stream at the home of Rumanian Commissar Gheor-ghiu-Dej, and police guards were expanded at Red Ministers' homes. In some Rumanian...
...likes to be called "the little Lenin," wears the title of Deputy Premier, but is the real boss of Communist East Germany. From Budapest came the Jew-purging Jew, Matyas Rakosi, who used Stalin's purge-trial technique to install himself in control of postwar Hungary. From Bucharest came Premier Gheorghiu-Dej, the icy-eyed nemesis of Ana Pauker. From Sofia came Premier Vulko Chervenkov, so unimaginatively obedient that even the suspicious men of the Kremlin are said to have no worries about his loyalty. From Prague came President Klement Gottwald, who neatly disposed of Moscow-groomed Rudolf Slansky...
RUMANIA-Ana Pauker, 58, porcine First Lady of Communism reigned in Red Rumania as Foreign Minister and Politburocrat; more than any other Rumanian Red, was the link between Moscow and Bucharest. Began sliding last month (TIME, June 9) when accused of "crimes against the state." Confessed to deviation both right & left, and saw her power transferred to her rival, Georghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who, along with her, was Rumania's spokesman at the Comin-fornrs birth. Purged last week as Foreign Minister. Probable fate: public trial, imprisonment or death...