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...Bucharest apartment last week, obdurate, old (74) Juliu Maniu, leader of the opposition to pro-Communist Petru Groza's Government, sat at lunch with two friends. Unannounced, an officer of Rumania's S.S.I, (secret political police) walked in, arrested Maniu. As he departed, the S.S.I, man offered his hand to one of Maniu's friends, saying: "I suppose you don't want to shake hands with a man who is doing this?" Replied the friend: "Oh, that's all right. I'm a surgeon-I've got blood on my hands...
...part of the Molotov answer to the "Marshall approach," Rumania was being leeched of its last drops of democracy in preparation for a paper peace. A ratified treaty would mean withdrawal of the Red Army, and that might mean the downfall of Groza, the triumph of Maniu. To make sure that would not happen, Moscow's Andrei Vishinsky had ordered Groza: "Get your house in order...
Terror & Grain. Groza acted. From every hamlet, every urban neighborhood, one, two, three people disappeared. Many of them had nothing to do with politics, but fear inhibits opposition. Next, opposing leadership was wiped out. Top officials of Maniu's National Peasant Party were jailed for plotting to overthrow Groza. To prove how guilty they were, newspapers printed an official photograph which showed twelve of the accused, with two pilots and piles of baggage, "preparing to flee" in a rickety old single-engined, three-place biplane...
...arrests were accompanied by a rat-a-tat fire of Moscow-inspired Groza decrees: drastic shake-up of the Ministry of Industry to insure adherence to Communist economics; virtual nationalization of industry; a budget cut to speed the purge of "unreliable" civil servants; an order empowering shop committees to dictate a purge of industrial employees; transfer of the best Rumanian Army corps to the Communist-run Ministry of Interior; purge of several thousand Army officers; an order that peasants must thresh their grain in the presence of Government officials to prevent widespread hoarding...
...Groza took no heed of the old mariners' weather rhyme...