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Dimly old Marshal Ion Antonescu senses that things are not turning out as he had thought when he made his deal with the Germans. He still sits hunched behind his oversized desk in his oversized office; he still speaks respectfully of the thoughts and wishes of the Marshal, meaning his own. He still turns now & again to admire the full length portrait of his younger self which hangs behind his chair, and to dream of the time (1941) when he led his troops into Odessa. But no longer does he really believe that brutal, brassy Baron Manfred von Killinger, Hitler...
Gestapo's Choice. None could say for certain which or how many Rumanians Prince Stirbey spoke for. Anyone could see that he would not be at large in a warring world without: 1) Puppet-Dictator Marshal Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu's permission; 2) the Gestapo's connivance. Some could see a telltale in the way the Gestapo detained Princess Elise a week at the Bulgarian border as a British subject, then inexplicably let her follow her father to Ankara. The Princess' husband, Major Edward Boxhall, now in the War Office in London, formerly represented armament-makers...
...bolster the authority of pro-Axis Premier Ion Antonescu, fresh batches of Gestapo agents arrived in Bucharest. Temporarily as in neighboring Bulgaria (TiME, Jan. 10), the Nazi hold might be strong enough to prevent outright defection. But neither the Nazis nor the orders of the quisling Premier could halt Rumania's rising panic...
Deputy Premier Mihai Antonescu (no kin to Premier Ion) might be one possibility; two others: Juliu Maniu, president of the National Peasant Party, and Constantin Bratianu, president of the National Liberal Party. Both Maniu and Bratianu recently wrote well-advertised letters to Premier Antonescu, denouncing the "anti-British and anti-American character you have given to the war," demanding peace before the war reaches Rumania's frontiers...
...Emerging from a long silence, the disbanded political parties of Rumania addressed King Mihai: Rumania is on the threshold of collapse, they said; Dictator Ion Antonescu is responsible. His policy lost us independence and the sacred soil of Transylvania...