Word: carolers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everybody expected she would some day, Russia demanded Bessarabia from Rumania last week. And as everybody expected he would, King Carol II gave in. That much of what went on in the Balkans last week was accepted with a shrug by sophisticates in Realpolitik. Everything else was surprising...
...surprising that Russia's Premier Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov took no trouble to make King Carol's capitulation easy. On the contrary, he handed Rumanian Minister Gheorghe Davidescu a brusque note demanding Bessarabia and northern Bucovina within 24 hours. The ceding of northern Bucovina, which, unlike Bessarabia, Russia never owned, would repay Russia for waiting 20 years for Bessarabia, said Viacheslav Mikhailovich. When Minister Davidescu returned to ask for negotiations to determine the procedure of transfer, Premier Molotov said flatly that the Red Army would begin to move in at 2 that afternoon and gave the Rumanian Army four...
Over the Dnestr bridge and down from Galicia, the Red Army poured on schedule.It moved so fast that it soon caught up with retreating Rumanian soldiers. Rumanians who stopped to argue were shot. While King Carol ordered full mobilization to resist a Hungarian threat to his western frontier, Bucharest buzzed with rumors that the Red Army had overstepped its mark and was pouring into Old Rumania. Baby tanks crawled out of pregnant Red Army planes at Reni on the Danube, overcame the Rumanian garrison there before it could unstack its arms.* Presently, isolated units of the Rumanian Army began...
...surprising that the German Legation at Bucharest was surprised at the Russian grab. Germany had already recognized Russia's claim to Bessarabia and would hardly have objected, even though King Carol had gone Nazi in a belated effort to get German protection (TIME, July 1). Both Berlin and Rome professed disinterest in what Russia was doing, blamed any agitation about it on a British plot to open an eastern front. Germany insisted that she would not be drawn into any Balkan adventure now and Italy told Hungary and Bulgaria not to press their claims against Rumania. But Berlin hinted...
...That which the Führer has accomplished for Germany our King has accomplished for us," cried Propaganda Minister Constantino Giurescu. Iron Guard Leader Horia Sima, last month an exile in Germany, now Carol's pal, was more realistic. Commanding his comrades to join Führer Hohenzollern's Party, he sighed: "The whole world is going topsyturvy. We are going to have a new arrangement of countries and peoples. It is possible our country will meet with misfortune. The King's new Party will enable us to face the future...