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Quick Jump. Rumania, which like Czechoslovakia has been slow at reforming itself, got busy immediately. Rumania's Party Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej last week fired from his Politburo two oldtime Stalinists-Minister of Education Miron Constantinescu and Central Committee Secretary Iosif Chisinevschi, long No. 2 man to Gheorghiu-Dej himself. The expulsions, announced Bucharest smugly, took place at a Rumanian party plenum which ended only 48 hours after the downfall of Molotov...
...July he took a trip to Bucharest, dropped in to see Mititza Constantinescu, Finance Minister and Governor of the Rumanian National Bank. To Mititza, Sosthenes' story was familiar and sad. In 1930 I. T. & T. had paid $7,678,000 for 88% of the capital stock in Rumanian Telephone Co., which then had 50,000 telephones installed and terrible service. By 1940 the subscribers had risen to 102,268; the company was making $1,500,000 a year (20% on its original investment). But I. T. & T., because of exchange restrictions, got only pocket change. To Mititza & Sosthenes...
...good talking point on his side. Rumanians were once international capitalists too, had $50,000,000 of investments and other balances in the U. S., frozen (since Oct. 10) by Roosevelt decree. Hinting that the U. S. State Department might consent to a legitimate swap, Colonel Behn got Governor Constantinescu to talk it over with Premier General Antonescu...
That Rumania, pushed and backed by the Allies, had decided on a resolute stand against Germany and Russia was further evidenced - and explained - by a scene last week in Sofia, capital of Rumania's southern and (until lately) cool neighbor Bulgaria. Rumania's Finance Minister Mitita Constantinescu, after a two-day visit talking politics and economics with the Bulgarians, bade them farewell by crying: "Long live Bulgaria!" and joining his hosts in throwing top hats into...
...Josef Beck goes to Bucharest to arrange all details of a state visit by His Majesty King Carol to Warsaw early next year-His Majesty has not made plans to attend the Coronation of George VI.* To Warsaw last week hurried the Governor of the Bank of Rumania, George Constantinescu about munitions loans. All up and down the "Bastions of Peace" in hundreds of factories rumbled and belched Rearmament...