Word: niculescu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most forceful language ever used against them. Longo main tained that "the authority of the Czecho slovak leaders is a precious patrimony for all their people, for all Socialist countries, for all men in the world who believe in socialism and struggle for it." Rumanian Delegate Paul Niculescu-Mizil insisted that the Russians "lacked any justification" for their actions against Czechoslovakia.* Czechoslovak Representative Evzen Erban, delivering a speech that had undergone three new drafts before the Russians finally cleared it, was under a ban not to mention the name of Czechoslovak Leader Alexander Dubcek. But when Erban defied orders...
Rumania's chief delegate, Paul Niculescu-Mizil, immediately jumped to his feet, threatening to leave the conference if he did not get an apology. By midnight, the Syrian had agreed to strike his remarks from the official record, enabling weary delegates to retire to their nicely furnished rooms in the belief that things had been patched up. But back in Bucharest, Ceausescu decided not to let matters rest there, demanded that the entire meeting vote an apology to Rumania. When the apology was not forthcoming, Niculescu-Mizil denounced Russia's "Stalinist tactics." Then the Rumanians walked...
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