Word: mihai
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When they heard young King Mihai announce on the radio that Rumania had switched to the Allied side in the war, they persuaded the prison commander to turn them loose-with their side arms. But it was not enough to be free: they wanted to be back in Allied territory...
...only four years since Hitler had ordered Rumania to disgorge her World War I gains-north Transylvania to the Magyars, south Dobruja to the Bulgars. Now in the Kremlin the Royalist-Communist delegates of young King Mihai studied armistice terms, begged humbly at the Russian table for territorial crumbs...
...German side into the war on the Allied side. Rumors of Rumanian peace feelers and talks with the Russians and British had buzzed around for months. But the Red Army's mighty shove (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS) shook the royal palace, jolted young King Mihai and his aging aide-de-camp, General Constantin Sanatescu, into the realization that it was time to stop buzzing and do something. Young Mihai reached first for his Tommy gun, then for a microphone...
Among the "unconditional surrender" conditions which the Allies were reported ready to grant Rumania were: independence, recognition of Mihai as King, a return of the big slice of Transylvania which Hitler handed over to Hungary in 1940. Rumanian troops were already battling Hungarian troops for Transylvania...
...Young Mihai's Tommy gun nearly jammed on him. In the hustle & bustle of flip-flopping, General Antonescu was reported to have tried to make peace with the Allies first. Mihai beat his former dictator to the decision and the microphone by little more than the length of his Hohenzollern nose...