Word: groza
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...Rumania, as in other countries, the Opposition was often split, inside and outside the Cabinet. But the Opposition itself was unmistakable. Both National Liberal leader Constantin Dinu Bratianu and Peasant Party chief Juliu Maniu flatly advocated overthrow of the Moscow-backed regime of Premier Peter Groza. Mostly the Opposition program was negatively antiCommunist, but last week Maniu made a positive point : let the U.S. and Britain help the Opposition by recognizing a reconstructed Rumanian Government...
...Rumania, next on Ethridge's calling list, politicians cooked up another warm welcome. Opposition parties stiffened their attitudes toward Premier Peter Groza's Russian-sponsored regime. The Government showed uneasiness on uncooperative King Mihai's 24th birthday, seized Liberal and Peasant party leaders, held them for hours. Otherwise the Groza cabinet continued to ignore the King, passed decrees over his head...
...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...
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...