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...Britain could go on looking down their noses at Rumania's Communist-dominated Government; Russia knew its own child, and would nurture it. Last week in Moscow, Russia followed its accolade of the Rumanian Government and its boss, Premier Peter Groza, by giving Groza a present to take home. The present: a general easing of the armistice terms given to Rumania when she abandoned" Adolf Hitler and his works a year ago. Items: ¶ Russia agreed to a "request" to return control of Rumanian railroads, restore part of Rumania's Black Sea and Danube shipping fleets (including...
Said a bristling British spokesman: "We certainly did not apply any pressure on the King. . . . Our views about the Groza Government have been well known to the Russians since they removed the Radescu Government early this year and installed the present regime." Next, United Press, in a Bucharest dispatch filed abroad to avoid Rumanian censorship, reported that strong-arm Andrei Vishinsky, ace Russian trouble shooter, had given King Michael just two hours to dismiss Radescu, install Groza...
...Cordial, Friendly." Russia followed its slap at Michael with a pat for Groza. In Moscow the Rumanian Premier and his Government received an elaborate endorsement. Welcomed to the capital on a scale customarily reserved for top diplomatic personages, the pleased, impressed Premier intoned: "I am happy that for the first time I tread the Moscow earth. Light comes from the east...
Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was at the airport to meet Groza and his entourage of Ministers. Later Generalissimo Stalin entertained him at a "cordial, friendly" dinner at the Kremlin...
...official junket set an imposing Soviet seal on the Groza Government, just before the Council of Foreign Ministers was due to weigh its records in London (see INTERNATIONAL). But Rumania, like Bulgaria (see below), needed the imprimatur of the U.S. and Britain before it could get the peace treaty it sought. Not one but all of the Big Three were now acting tough. If Premier Groza had found light in the east, King Michael might also find it in the west...