Word: kishinev
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...overjoyed at the support given them by Signer Mussolini against Russia- (TIME, March 21). So popular grew II Duce in Rumania that last week one of the streets in Bucharest was renamed after him. Rumanian Deputies contributed out of their own pockets to set up a Mussolini statue at Kishinev, chief town of Bessarabia...
Next day a trainload of anti-Semite Rumanian students, en route from Kishinev to Jassy, decided to express their contempt for Jews at Calarasi. When the train drew to a halt they seized the Jewish engineer and bound him to his engine. Dashing through the town, they laid hands on whatever Jews and Jewesses they chanced to meet, dragged these unfortunates to the railway station and flogged them severely. Then, releasing the engineer, they made a final gesture of scorn by climbing back into their train and allowing him to proceed, confident that he would not take revenge...
...Bucharest despatch, unconfirmed, stated laconically: "Trotzky was assassinated at Kishinev while on his way to the Crimea...