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...Common Market. Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki turned up in Stockholm; Hungarian Boss János Kádár talked to Tito in Bled; the Shah of Iran left Rumania for an eight-day state visit to Yugoslavia. No sooner had Rumanian Postal Minister Mihai Balanescu arrived in Paris to inspect French telecommunications than Kentucky Governor Ed Breathitt popped up in Poznan for a Polish tool fair...
...King was 53 years old. Magda never told anyone her age, but it was at least 50. Back in Rumania, young Mihai, Carol's son, was King now. It did not seem such a long time ago that little Mihai had asked innocently one day: "Who is Daddy's lady friend...
Tangible Assets. But the Russians could afford to bide their time. They had tangible assets. There was popular King Mihai, who, with Marshal Tito, is the only Balkan leader to receive the exalted Soviet Order of Victory medal. There was Premier Peter Groza, Soviet stooge and physical culture enthusiast, whose family remains in his native Transylvania while he lives with his mistress in Bucharest. There were the only two divisions of Rumanian troops repatriated, after proper indoctrination, from Russia. They constituted an incipient praetorian guard...
Also up to the Russians were the future fortunes of the only reigning king left behind the iron curtain. In Rumania, where in pre-election arguments Communists recently scored political points by beating up leading liberals, King Mihai I still perched on his throne. Last week the Russians were still giving him cigaret money, sometimes even gave him a light...
...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...