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...Watch on Bucharest. With no waste of time, the U.S. and Britain let Moscow know that they disliked the smell of the Government set up in Bucharest last fortnight by the Kremlin's fixer, Andrei Januari Vishinsky (TIME, March...
...fact that the talks were still going on this week represented a considerable gain. For Andrei Vishinsky, the mild-mannered, tough-minded Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, had previously played a lone hand in Bucharest, ignoring the Allied Commission and dealing directly with young King Mihai. Perhaps Joseph Stalin needed time to bring his bureaucracy into line with the Yalta doctrine, just as Franklin Roosevelt had needed time to bring his abstentionist State Department into line with the new U.S. policy of responsibility in Europe...
...puffy, spectacled man with a nervous tic in the left cheek and a shock of unruly grey hair arrived unexpectedly in Bucharest, from Moscow. Andrei Januari Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, looked more than ever like an absentminded, amiable professor. But the Kremlin's ace trouble-shooter - and the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow Old Bolshevik trials - had not come out of absentmindedness...
...Democratic National Front - a thickset, moonfaced Transylvanian in the early 60s, whose large inherited land holdings qualified him to head the Ploughmen's Front. Until last year Groza was a small-time Balkan politician who made headlines when two angry landlords beat him up in the foyer of Bucharest's Athenee Palace Hotel...
...midnight broadcast Radio Bucharest reported that "the Government at present is master of the situation." (Earlier Radio Bucharest reported that a political assassin had tried, but failed, to kill Premier General Nicolai Radescu...