Word: carolled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumania. Following a week of tough talk, King Carol weakened and came to terms with Germany's tougher trade negotiator Dr. Karl Clodius. In return for promises of "huge quantities of munitions and squadrons of airplanes," Rumania amended her trade treaty with the Reich and agreed to deplete her own reserves in order to deliver the $8,000,000 worth of wheat ordered by Dr. Clodius a few days before an export embargo was declared. Under Allied pressure, Rumania refused to increase her monthly oil shipments of 130,000 tons to Germany or to re-evaluate her currency...
...thousand German experts of any kind in his country is the last thing King Carol wants. It took him just 14 hours to figure out the answer. Rumania has a National Youth Movement (ages 7 to 18) containing 4,000,000 boys & girls. These children will be released from school for staggered two-week periods, bundled into overalls, put behind the plow...
...story twists around the romance between the scion of a hardbitten, salt-making family and a disillusioned blonde who arrives from Bermuda to keep books. Hemingwaywardness bristles on the story like barnacles. But it has one claim to originality: Author Hayes's ingenuity in getting Adrian and Carol alone together on the island. Adrian's father drowns; his mother dies of neurosis; his young wife departs to have a baby, decides to stay for good; Carol's ill-charactered father is killed by blacks, who then flee the island en masse...
...Rumania for more oil-and reinforcing his arguments with showings of hair-raising motion pictures of the German conquest of Poland. In the face of this pressure and of the danger that his country might be partitioned among Russia, Germany and Hungary if he refused to play ball, King Carol showed guts. He expelled a British Reuters correspondent who filed a story that Germany had delivered an ultimatum to Rumania, announced that a Rumanian trade delegation would go to London this month. Air-raid drills were instituted in all parts of the country. But the King was nervous. He made...
Moreover, before the Rumanian Senate, Youth Leader General Theophilus Sidorovici disclosed that Benito Mussolini would guarantee Rumanian frontiers. That Carol was at any rate listening to Herr Hitler's propositions was evident when Premier George Tatarescu's Government released 786 Iron Guard terrorists from jail...