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Friends rushed him to Bucharest, where he was thrown into jail and fished out again by "Cousin" Marie (the Queen of Rumania). A good many of his other cousins were driving taxis in those days, and Wilhelm became thoroughly disillusioned. When Ukrainian students in a Prague beer hall raised their glasses to him with the cry "Long Live Our Vasily," he only muttered: "The fools. . . ." By that time, the Ukraine was a Soviet Socialist Republic...
...Moldavian border, 180 miles northeast of Bucharest, Rumanian troops were exchanging shots with Russians. But suddenly the Rumanians turned their guns on the Germans, and Hitler's largely Rumanian-manned southern flank gave way to a Red Army romp. Behind the historic switch was an historic conversation-of the sort novelists spend agonized years trying to reconstruct. But this dialogue had been carefully recorded on a talking disc by a boyish, gadget-loving King, and seldom had the most imaginative of novelists equaled it. Last week, as Rumania celebrated the third anniversary of Aug. 23, TIME Correspondent Robert...
...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), husky youngster, not quite 23 years old, paced the floor of his study in the Bucharest palace. Occasionally he stopped to finger the button which led to a concealed Dictaphone. His loose tweed jacket and baggy grey flannel trousers, his light colored eyes and curly brown hair, made him seem younger than he actually was. But he had made his first -and perhaps his last-big decision as King of Rumania. Now he was about to take the big gamble...
...note charging Rumania's Communist-stooge Government with having violated its peace treaty with the U.S. Suppression of the National Peasant Party, and arrest of Juliu Maniu, National Peasant leader, were both in violation of guaranteed freedoms, said Secretary Marshall. In Bucharest, Marshall's note went unpublished. Ana Pauker, Rumania's Amazonian Communist boss, was setting the tone. In a recent speech she termed Americans "fascists" and "enemies of the people...
...Bucharest apartment last week, obdurate, old (74) Juliu Maniu, leader of the opposition to pro-Communist Petru Groza's Government, sat at lunch with two friends. Unannounced, an officer of Rumania's S.S.I, (secret political police) walked in, arrested Maniu. As he departed, the S.S.I, man offered his hand to one of Maniu's friends, saying: "I suppose you don't want to shake hands with a man who is doing this?" Replied the friend: "Oh, that's all right. I'm a surgeon-I've got blood on my hands...