Word: carolers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bigger one. Both countries are courting neutral Italy assiduously, as a sort of insurance. And Italy, herself looking for insurance, wants Rumania and Hungary to get together in a solid anti-Soviet Balkan bloc. Last week Theophilus Sidorovici, leader of the Rumanian youth movement and reputed agent of King Carol II, was in Rome, where he gave the Pope a Rumanian carpet and mosaic of the Virgin, gave Premier Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano King Carol's regards. Hungarians, viewing this visit with suspicion, let it be known that Count Csáky himself would soon...
...alliance, was accused of unnecessary bluntness before he left Ankara. He publicly said what everybody knew privately anyway-that "our country is not neutral, but is merely out of the war." Rumor had it that the Foreign Minister was cooking up a deal between Bulgaria and Rumania whereby King Carol would appease King Boris by handing back a small strip of the Dobruja territory Bulgaria has long demanded. Thereafter Bulgaria would join the Entente...
...jammed to bursting with soldiers on the move night & day. German and British agents campaign furiously from headquarters on different floors but under the same Bucharest roof (Athénèe Palace Hotel). While Bucharest enjoys a superficial building boom topped off by a fancy new palace, King Carol has taken his country's whole life into his own hands in a desperate effort to save his Kingdom...
Military preparedness against threats from the north and east is, for King Carol, no more important than lining up his neighbors on the west and south. For Rumania was a gainer by the last war. Not only does Russia want back Bessarabia, but Hungary wants back Transylvania, Bulgaria wants back Dobruja-Rumania's northeast, northwest and southern provinces. Security against his Balkan neighbors until after the Red menace is past is the object of King Carol's earnest conversations with Regent Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and of next month's meeting of the Balkan Entente (Rumania, Yugoslavia...
Knowing that the other Balkans will not care to help Rumania defend herself from Russia, Carol had good cause to consult Prince Paul for help. Though little news of it leaked, his Government was just as frantically reinforcing its frontiers as the Belgians and the Dutch. Thousands of reservists called to the colors completely overtaxed the capacity of the Rumanian railroad system. Not only was there no standing room in railway cars, men clung on the outside steps in below-zero weather. Some of them grew numb and were found in the morning dead along the right...