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...firing squads. From a list of 2,000 "war criminals," the Rumanian Government selected a first installment of 100 generals, politicians _ and officials to be tried this week. Heading the list was Rumania's former Dictator and Premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu. When Russia strong-armed Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Rumania, ten months after the Moscow-Berlin pact (1939), Marshal Antonescu eagerly clasped Hitler's eagerly proffered hand, was unable to unclasp it in time...
...Restore Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to Russia...
Marshal Zhukov's army, on the Ukrainian right flank, was the first to reach the foothills of the Carpathians. Behind it burning villages still dotted the plain of Bukovina, which it had crossed after cap turing Cernauti. And above it stood two famed Carpathian passes which Russian armies in one bitter winter of World War I fought to attain, but never succeeded in gaining...
...sovereign and nonCommunist; to be occupied by U.S. and British troops as well as Russian. This week an unnamed diplomat in Switzerland threw back his cloak just long enough to reveal what he said would be the Allied answer: strikingly parallel terms, except a reminder to Rumanians that northern Bukovina would have to go back with Bessarabia...
...Provinces of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania which in 1940 voted almost unanimously (under pressure) for incorporation into the Soviet the eastern half of pre-war Poland, occupied by Russian in 1939 and inhabited largely not by Poles but by White Russians and Lithuanians; the Ukraine; Bessarabia; and bits of Bukovina and Moldavia. If, in addition to gaining these wide territories for protection against Germany, he is convinced that the Western Allies will take effective measures to prevent a future German menace to Russia, it is more than likely that Stalin will be satisfied to let them undertaker the task...