Word: calinescu
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...suffering and death. No nonsensical tirades could conceal the fact that 17 days after Germany announced Warsaw had fallen, citizens were dying in that city, bombs were still falling, shells were still shattering the suburbs. The radio announcer, awaiting a death as final as that of Premier Calinescu or General Fritsch, could expect no state funeral when he fell. There were none for the 1,000 civilians whose bodies, he reported, were lying in the streets. When the radio broke down under gunfire, he announced that it would soon be fixed, like a man repairing a puncture. Half the city...
...hand grenades, boldly confessing, "We were going to toss them into the Royal Box while everyone was watching the big race of the day." Significantly, Lloyd's of London not long ago refused to write insurance on the life of strong and healthy Rumanian Premier Armand ("Little Hercules") Calinescu. Last week this actuarial judgment proved sound as foul murder and bloody vengeance erupted right in the middle of Bucharest, within five minutes walk of the Royal Palace...
BUCHAREST--A new military government, using stern measures to wipe out remnants of the Nazi Iron Guard organization, tonight lined up and shot nine of the Nazi terrorists who assassinated Premier Armand Calinescu in the main street of the city...
Three other members of the band who escaped immediately after the shooting were found hiding in their homes, nursing injuries, and were likewise lined up and shot by soldiers. A few minutes after the killing of Calinescu, two of his slayers committed suicide with their guns after being trapped in a store near the scene of the assassination...
...swift punishment for the killing was directed by General George Argeshanu, Commander of the Bucharest Army Corps and former War Minister, who was named premier to replace the slain Calinescu by King Carol II and the Crown Council...