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...gilt & gingerbread palace at Sinaia. Any contact between sovereign and subjects is rigorously discouraged by the Communists. His own two aunts are little better than Russian agents. His Speech from the Throne last week, at the opening of Rumania's Parliament, was plainly dictated by Communist Petru Groza, the King's first minister and Rumania's real boss. "Friendship and cooperation in all fields with the U.S.S.R.," read Michael, "remain the very basis of Rumanian foreign policy. Rumania will seek sincere cooperation with the nations respecting the independence, sovereignty and freedom of peoples...
Inside the gloomy igth Century concert hall across from the royal palace, the Cabinet, all high-ranking Communists, gathered to watch the King make one of his rare public appearances and hear Prime Minister Petru Groza make one of his frequent speeches. Dutifully, the Communist clique gave Groza a resounding welcome. But it was silent when the red plush doors of the royal box flew open and the King strode in. Erect, unsmiling, he sat alone in the huge box, listened impassively as Groza took credit for the coup himself and pointedly failed to mention even once the role played...
...Said Groza: "We are moving forward to the elimination of the last traces of Fascism." He paused significantly. The implication became even clearer when Rumania's Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker swung her jutting chin around toward the royal box, and gave Michael a long, long stare...
...offices, homes and streets. They were not all Peasant Party members. But they were mostly Maniu followers. In the prison basement of the white marble ministry they got ari MVD-style* rubber hosing with one purpose: to extort confessions exposing a National Peasant Party plot against Kremlin Puppet Petru Groza and the Soviet Union...
Russia's proconsuls in the Balkans were doing a lot of serious commuting. Rumania's furiously fellow-traveling Premier Petru Groza, after stopovers in Belgrade and Budapest, went to Sofia, where Bulgarian Communist Premier Georgi Dimitrov received him with an old Stalinesque gesture (see cut) and a new-found sartorial nattiness. This week, Dimitrov himself journeyed to Belgrade, where he conferred with Communist Premier-Marshal Tito. Said Dimitrov on his arrival: Bulgaria and Yugoslavia are linked in brotherhood. A pact of "friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance" between the two countries was "contemplated in the near future...