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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christmas in pastoral Bessarabia is visiting time. This Christmas a bitter, blizzardy Rumanian winter swept down off the Carpathians but the quaint railway cars that spin from Kishinev down to Galatz, Braila and Bucharest were thronged with festive, gaily-cloaked peasants visiting from village to village. East of Galatz two holiday trains sped along the winding, single-track line in a blinding storm. Someone had blundered, for they were running head on toward each other. Near Reni they crashed. For hours the dying lay with the dead in the heaping snow while rescue trains ploughed through from Galatz. Late Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Disaster on Wheels | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...Galatz, Rumania, from Warsaw suddenly traveled Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck seeking audience with King Carol to urge Hungary's claims. He was received coldly. Soon afterward His Majesty and Premier Patriarch Miron Cristea let the Rumanian censorship pass news that the Pole "achieved nothing that he had sought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Constitution | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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