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Millimeter by millimeter, like a small bug on a windowpane, the Finnish tanker Aruba crawled along the charted sea lanes. The world paid little attention as she made her way down from the Rumanian port of Constanta to the Mediterranean and eastward toward Port Said. Then, three weeks ago, like hundreds of other vessels that pass through the Suez Canal, the 10,000-ton Aruba was forced to declare her cargo and destination. It proved to be 13,000 tons of high-grade kerosene consigned to Red China, enough jet plane fuel to carry Communist airmen on an estimated...
Pawnshop City. Today, there are less than 50,000 Red army soldiers in Rumania but, stationed at key points throughout the country, they are enough. Also, Moscow has settled about 20,000 Russian families around Constanta on the strategic Black Sea coast. Through seven huge "Sovroms" (Soviet-Rumanian combines), the Russians almost completely control transport, oil, timber, banking, and everything else they can lay their hands on, even including Rumania's tiny motion picture industry. A Rumanian proverb covers the situation: "When the Russians help us, they always take something away...
Along this same corridor lies a chunk of Rumania. Since last summer, Russians have been arriving in large numbers. Rumania's vital Black Sea port, Constanta, now has some 50,000 of them-as many Russians as there are Rumanians. They have their own schools, shops, theaters and restaurants. In most Rumanian cities King Michael's photo is flanked by those of Rumanian Premier Petru Groza and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin; in Constanta bars, shops and hotels, Stalin's photo gets the center...
...already having had their inoculations and many weeks of Russian-language study from phonograph records. Then at noon Wednesday their several months' grace disappeared in two minutes flat: the phone rang and an official voice told the Thompsons they could have space on the Warren Delano, bound for Constanta in Rumania-if they could report with their baggage and their papers the very next day! (Rumania isn't Russia, but this was the best offer yet, so Mrs. Thompson said okay...
...steamship company couldn't take Mrs. Thompson unless her visa said "To Constanta." And the Russian Consulate couldn't change the visa because Moscow had specifically named Odessa as her port of entry. Finally, after much bilingual ping-pong, the steamship company accepted a note from the Russian Consulate recommending that Mrs. Thompson travel to Odessa "via Constanta...