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...annoying soap shortage, Russia staged its annual May Day revels, a display of rumbling tanks, massed troops, zooming warplanes, in praise of its successful "struggle for peace." Among the bigwigs who surrounded Man-of-Peace Stalin atop Lenin's tomb were new faces, the representatives of Bessarabia and Bukovina. Slogan of the day was "Strengthen the Red Army and Intelligence Service...
...troops in Rumania, only instructors. ... If there are any troops, they are to guard the Rumanian oil wells against an attack by the British. . . ." Nor were the dispatches of correspondents promoting a fight between Germany and Russia convincing. These made much of "massed troops" in Russia's Northern Bukovina, the partial evacuation of Cer-nauti on the Rumania-Russian border, rumored movements of Soviet tanks and motorized units, the visit to Bessarabia of Russian Commissar of Defense Semion Timoshenko. The principal business of Marshal Timoshenko was to visit his home town and chat with his rickety brother. One extremely...
Richest and largest of the Balkans, Rumania is surrounded by nations which have long and impatiently waited for a chance to grab back some of the territories they had previously lost to the Rumanians. Revisionist-mad Hungarians long for the return of the Banat, Bukovina and Transylvania, old Hungarian provinces lost after the World War to Rumania, peopled now by some 1,500,000 Magyars and 800,000 Germans. Bulgaria has never forgotten that she lost part of the province of Dobruja to Rumania in 1913 and that some 500,000 Dobrujans are now Rumanian subjects. Bessarabia, to the northeast...
Suddenly, however, Rumanian public opinion reasserted itself last week. In Transylvania and Bukovina peasant mobs sacked and burned Jewish homes in the countryside, then grew bolder, began loot- ing Jewish shops...