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Three days later Michael and Mama arrived in Bucharest. If there was to be a royal Rumanian wedding, the marriage would be made in Moscow...
Fortnight ago, when Rumania's Communist-eclipsed young (26) King Michael and his handsome mamma, Queen Helen, flew to London for Cousin Elizabeth's wedding, he was asked if he intended to return to Bucharest. Said he: "I have heard these reports...They are not true. I have my responsibility and I intend to meet it." He said he would fly back Nov. 23. Last week the deadline passed, and Michael stayed on in London...
...there was more than romance on Michael's mind. From the day of his arrival in London he had been holding high level talks about his job in Bucharest. The Rumanian Communists' power grab was complete, and Michael, king in a Communist-dominated country, had become a royal cipher. The stunned immobility with which Rumanians watched their beloved National Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu be crushed under Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker's steamroller told Michael he had not long to reign-even as Pauker's virtual prisoner...
Last week the well-to-do residents of Bucharest's smart Parcu Filipescu section had something to talk about. A woman as Foreign Minister of Rumania, the first to serve in such a post anywhere! And such a woman! Although Ana Pauker, mother of three and self-made widow, lived among them in the Parcu district, kept a lakeside villa at Snagov, and rode in the swankest limousines (bullet-proofed), she had but lately "arrived," in a way most ominous for her neighbors...
Died. General Constantin Sanatescu, 62, reluctant Premier of Rumania's first, pro-Allied Government after her surrender in August 1944; of cancer; in Bucharest. Co-engineer with King Michael of the coup d'état that overthrew the Fascist puppet-masters, Sanatescu fell into disfavor with the Russians after three months as premier, quit, became inspector general of the Army...