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Last week, Western capitals heard some new reports on life in Rumania. Bucharest police recently rounded up several hundred Rumanian politicians and generals, most of them aging and long retired. Among them: George Tatarescu, 58, who was Premier under King Carol's regime, then turned his coat to serve the Communists as Foreign Minister until November 1947; and Octogenarian Constantin (Dinu) Bratianu, for years the leader of Rumania's National Liberal Party...
...cause was the improvement in economic conditions in France, Britain, Italy and The Netherlands, and the renewed confidence in many of the world's currencies since devaluation. Though monetary experts still kept their fingers crossed, that drastic cure was apparently working. (However, in Iron Curtain cities such as Bucharest, gold was still bringing $68 an ounce, though even there it was beginning to drop...
...Arlberg-Orient is one of the Continent's glamour trains, a storied track for international diplomats and international intrigue. Karpe had Compartment ll of the Bucharest sleeper. There were six other passengers in the car, including two friends, Secretary John Oliver Wright II, of the British legation in Bucharest, and Mrs. Wright. The Britons were accompanied by two countrymen-a king's messenger (or diplomatic courier) and his military guard...
Captain Karpe walking forward in the train to the diner. He passed through the crowded Bucharest day coach, sat down at a table with an American student. Karpe complained a bit about his aching leg, drank only a bottle of seltzer water for his meal. Then he left the table...
Vienna's diplomatic circles looked on Karpe as no ordinary attache. A frequent visitor to the Austrian capital, he had unusual intelligence contacts. He had left Bucharest at a time of crisis in the Balkans. Possibly he had information regarding Russia's spring plans for dealing with Tito. One American, with long experience in central Europe, speculated...