Word: davidescu
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...surprising that Russia's Premier Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov took no trouble to make King Carol's capitulation easy. On the contrary, he handed Rumanian Minister Gheorghe Davidescu a brusque note demanding Bessarabia and northern Bucovina within 24 hours. The ceding of northern Bucovina, which, unlike Bessarabia, Russia never owned, would repay Russia for waiting 20 years for Bessarabia, said Viacheslav Mikhailovich. When Minister Davidescu returned to ask for negotiations to determine the procedure of transfer, Premier Molotov said flatly that the Red Army would begin to move in at 2 that afternoon and gave the Rumanian Army four...
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