Word: carolers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumanians agreed to eliminate "parasitic" industries, grow grain for Germany. British war equipment, sent to strengthen weak-chinned King Carol as an ally, will be shipped to Germany. Sharing the honor of Axis membership, Rumanians were also asked to share its fasting-three meatless meals weekly and practically no butter as large quantities were consigned to the butter-starved Reich. Germans guarding the Ploesti oil field saw three wells burn, firmly declared the fires were accidental, not sabotage...
...centre of Bucharest, just across the street from one of the grandiose new palace wings with which Carol II busied his last months as Rumania's King, stands the Athenee Palace Hotel. It is a six-story, 200-room structure with a clean face of white stucco. Some call it the laboratory, some the lavatory, of Balkan politics. Its bar buzzes with political gossip and its marble-pillared lounge teems with blondes, top hats, beards, uniforms and monocles. Being the best hotel in Bucharest, it has always been the favorite hangout of the British...
...barges have started down the Danube with ack-ack equipment, tanks and ammunition? Did you hear that German girls threw flowers at the Jerries as they marched into Sibiu and Seghisoara? Isn't it awful that the Nazi G. H. Q. is to be in the building where Carol's guards used to stay? Wasn't it typical of the Germans to fly the whole Rumanian Air Force over our heads today, as if that would frighten...
...Reginald Hervey Hoare, Britain's Minister. A distant cousin of Sir Samuel Hoare, he used to be quite a figure of a man-tall, with a handsome white-haired head, careless in dress and indolent of speech, kindly, dry, hospitable. He was a great friend of Carol, and used to converse with the King in Rumanian with a splendid British accent. But his health had gone, his retirement was long overdue, and the driving out of Carol left him at 58 broken and bitter. Last week he scurried about trying to avert a break in British-Rumanian relations long...
...granted to Lewis V. Chapman; Lawrence E. Cox; John A. Dahlstrand; John W. Eager; Frederick E. Ellis; William H. Fox; Edwin R. Freeman; Thomas W. Jolly; Harold B. Kuhn; Nathaniel Lawrence; Robert E. Lewis; Eric N. Linblade; Frederick A. Lovell, Jr; Richard V. McCann; Alexander D. MacNaughton; Malcolm Matheson; Carol L. Shuster; Thomas B. Smith; John P. Voss; Leon E. Wright; Harold O. Worcester; and John L. Yenches...