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...From Bucharest last week came another of those grimly familiar communiques out of the Land of Darkness at Noon: "Ana Pauker has been relieved of her functions by the Presidium of the National Assembly." And so another Cominformist bit the dust. Five years ago, 18 Communist big shots gathered somewhere in Poland "to reorganize the general staff of the world revolution." Of these 18, two have been executed, two excommunicated; two have risen higher in favor, at least three, and possibly five, have been purged. Moreover, the leadership of every one of the six principal satellites in the Cominform...
...sunny day in Bucharest, as the story goes, a friend stopped Ana Pauker in the street and asked: "Ana, why are you carrying an umbrella? It's not raining." Replied Rumania's No. i Communist: "It's raining in Moscow. I heard it on the radio." Last week fat Ana Pauker had her umbrella up; it was raining horribly in Moscow...
...jail, and asked only for Gheorghiu-Dej. Instead wily Antonescu gave them Ana. While Gheorghiu-Dej sweated out the war in a concentration camp, Ana squeezed herself into a Red army colonel's uniform in Moscow and made hay with the Kremlin. Triumphantly back in Bucharest in 1944, she personified Soviet power, drove a bulletproof automobile, enjoyed Bucharest's best food and its fastest growing waistline. She was said to be the only Rumanian Communist who could pick up a phone and talk to Stalin...
...backed by 52 witnesses, the prosecutor began unfolding an imposing story of Communist espionage and intrigue. It began more than 2½ years ago, after the U.S.-bolstered Greek army had crushed the Communist guerrilla revolt. Greek intelligence officers began picking up coded radio conversations between a station near Bucharest, in Communist Rumania, and clandestine stations near Athens. For more than a year they tried without success to track down the source, meanwhile collecting scores of messages in a code they could not decipher...
...some steps and opened a hidden door. Inside the underground room, they found an oldtime Greek Communist named Nicholas Vavoudis dying from the bullet he had fired into his mouth. Near him was a radio receiver and sender, and more records showing how the underground got its orders from Bucharest, dispatched in return reports on politics and troop dispositions...