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Queen Helen, handsome mother of Rumania's King Mihai, heard that she was to be reimbursed for a personal war loss, suffered when U.S. bombers raided Brasov. En route to her from one of the raiders (Colonel Marshall R. Gray, now in Seattle) was a pair of nylons, to replace those she had torn while making royal tracks out of the city...
Meanwhile Rumania's firing squads were oiling their rifles. The War Crimes Courts started with the first batch of 25 high Rumanian officers and officials. It was headed by ex-Premier General Constantin Sanatescu, formerly King Mihai's aide-de-camp. On the night of the coup d'état which overthrew the pro-Axis Government, General Sanatescu helped the King imprison Dictator Ion Antonescu in a vault built for ex-King Carol's stamp collection. Later, Sanatescu formed the first pro-Allied Government...
...soon as he could, he got back inside the Fortress: in Bulgaria he watched a Russian division moving up to battle, a sight rarely witnessed by U.S. newsmen. In Rumania he lunched with young King Mihai and Queen Helen, got the King's own story of how he had trapped Antonescu. En route back to Turkey he joined the British troops clearing the Nazis out of their Aegean outposts...
...fact that the talks were still going on this week represented a considerable gain. For Andrei Vishinsky, the mild-mannered, tough-minded Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, had previously played a lone hand in Bucharest, ignoring the Allied Commission and dealing directly with young King Mihai. Perhaps Joseph Stalin needed time to bring his bureaucracy into line with the Yalta doctrine, just as Franklin Roosevelt had needed time to bring his abstentionist State Department into line with the new U.S. policy of responsibility in Europe...
Within a few hours of Vishinsky's arrival, Premier Radescu resigned. Young King Mihai tried a surprise move: he appointed elegant, 71-year-old Prince Barbu Stirbey, lover of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, to form a new Government. When Stirbey's attempt failed, Mihai appointed Dr. Peter Groza, aggressive leader of the troublemaking Democratic National Front - a thickset, moonfaced Transylvanian in the early 60s, whose large inherited land holdings qualified him to head the Ploughmen's Front. Until last year Groza was a small-time Balkan politician who made headlines when two angry landlords beat...