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...military reasons Rumania anticipates attack from across the Dnestr near Cernauti (see map) rather than from Odessa into Bessarabia. (In Bessarabia there are too many swamplands to cross.) There are now 18 Rumanian divisions massed around Cernauti as against four in Bessarabia, which Rumania might even yield under stress, taking her stand along the River Prut. But meantime Rumania is frantically strengthening her positions from the Black Sea, along the entire length of the Russian border, and back along the entire length of the Hungarian border-honor among Balkan nations cannot be trusted...
...Moscow, the Soviet Union signed with Bulgaria, most Pan-Russian and most dissatisfied Balkan State, a "trade and navigation" treaty. Bulgarian rice, hides, tobacco, rose oil are to be exchanged for agricultural machinery, fertilizer, chemicals, cellulose. A Soviet-Bulgarian shipping line will probably be opened between Odessa and Varna. Not overly important in itself, the treaty nevertheless gives the Bolsheviks a friend in the Balkans...
...Carol was developing a mind of his own. She had a first glimpse of Carol's stubbornness at the Court of the Tsar. She got a big dose of it when, in World War I, the young Prince, serving as a Colonel, left his regiment, journeyed to Odessa, Russia, and there, after marrying 22-year-old Zizi Lambrino, the dashing daughter of a Rumanian officer, renounced all his rights to the throne...
...Odessa, Soviet Russia took delivery on the latest addition to its Black Sea fleet, the Italian-built, 2,895-ton destroyer Tashkent...
Lonely White Sail (Soyuzdetfilm). When the Soviet cinema chooses to rein in its ideological high horse, the result is usually a pleasant canter-like this current importation. Set in Odessa at the time of the abortive 1905 revolt. Lonely White Sail tells amusingly, and without overmuch political single-footing, of the exploits of two venturesome small boys, very like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, in helping a fugitive sailor from the mutinous cruiser Potemkin escape from a police spy. The boyish ease with which they outwit this official indicates that the art of spying has come a long way since...