Word: carolled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dictators have bulletproof railway cars and last week Carol Hohenzollern, royal dictator of Rumania for the last two and a half years, barely escaped alive from his country as lead spat against the armored sides of his speeding private train. The loyalty to this Hohenzollern of a simple Rumanian stationmaster at Timisoara was all that saved Carol II from the wrath of his bitter people...
Prudence and a word from Adolf Hitler kept it from moving in. Hitler ordered Rumania's King Carol to settle the claims of both Hungary and Bulgaria before Sept. 1. King Carol began to wriggle and stall. Last month, with Bulgaria's claim to Dobruja agreed to but still unfulfilled, Hungary's Premier Count Paul Teleki and Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky sent delegates to Turnu Severin in Rumania to present their claim to Transylvania. The delegates were told that Rumania would not consider ceding more than one-fifth of Transylvania. The delegates went home to Budapest...
...Bucharest cagey King Carol, who had wooed the Axis too late in life, heard about it when he received a frantic telephone call from his Foreign Minister telling him that Germany and Italy demanded that Rumania submit the dispute to arbitration-i.e., surrender a whacking chunk of Transylvania. The King had until 5 o'clock the next morning. His only consolation was that Germany would guarantee to him what would be left of his Kingdom. He summoned his Crown Council to the Palace, and throughout most of the night King & Councilors cudgeled their brains for a dodge. Just...
...Peasant Party leader, onetime Premier Juliu Maniu, turned up in Bucharest that morning, protesting bitterly. As news filtered out during the day to a shocked and sullen Rumania, protests grew ominous and muttering crowds of Bucharest citizens gathered outside the Palace. Even Iron Guardists were disillusioned. But to King Carol and a majority of his Councilors the choice was brutally simple: they could lose half of Transylvania, or they could lose Rumania...
Between Sofia and Bucharest a commuter sped last week-heavy Victor Cadere, Rumanian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, close friend of King Carol II. He was chosen to negotiate the Bulgarian claims because as Ambassador to Belgrade he had earned the warm friendship of the then Bulgarian Ambassador, Ivan Popoff, who is now Bulgaria's Foreign Minister. From Popoff to his King, from King to Popoff, Ambassador Cadere went, now with a warning, now with a concession, begging the retention of the important city of Silistra, asking reparations for public works. At a moment when Rumania seemed to stiffen, Hungary ominously...