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...order flashed from Washington to U.S. embassies halfway around the world: stop the Wiima. A grimy Finnish tanker loaded at the Rumanian oil port of Constantsa the Wiima was en route for Red China with 7,000 tons of aviation kerosene-enough fuel to give Communist MIG jets over 5,000 flying hours...
Right along, Maniu had seen what was coming. In 1945, when Britain's Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (now Lord Inverchapel) and the U.S.'s Averell Harriman "guaranteed" democratic rights in Rumania, Maniu had asked Harriman: "If the prefect of Constantsa falsifies the election list, will Britain send her fleet? The U.S. mobilize her army?" In 1947 Maniu answered himself: "The prefect of Constantsa did falsify the list. But there was no sign of the British fleet, no sound of American mobilization. Instead the prefect of Constantsa is still in office...
Rumanian forces, goaded on by German support, had trouble crossing the Prut, and Russia's most successful counterthrust made its way across the Danube toward Constantsa. The Germans seemed to be gathering forces for a seaborne flanking movement on the Russian naval base of Odessa...
...hastily recruited members of the crew, who might ask embarrassing questions, will be locked in and drowned; Jerome and Romain and an agent ashore will split the proceeds. There isn't much Jerome can do about it. He has signed all the papers; if the Rose docks at Constantsa with its cargo of "machinery" he faces a long jail sentence...
Blue & Yellow Danube. At Donaue-schingen in the Black Forest three small Alpine streams come together to form Europe's second longest river (the Volga is longer), which flows 1,750 miles across central and southeastern Europe to pour its waters into the Black Sea north of Constantsa. The Danube drains 320,200 square miles, has 300 tributaries; with the Rhine and the canal joining the two (now being improved at a cost of $300,000,000) it forms a waterway across Europe...