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Timid, red-nosed Grigor Moisil, Rumanian ambassador to Turkey, may have longed to do much the same thing. He heard that Foreign Minister Ana Pauker had purged his good friend Justice Minister Lucretiu Patrascanu, and lived in fear that he himself would be called home. Last week, within a 24-hour span, four announcements in Ankara gave a clue to his state of mind: 1) the Turkish government announced that Grigor had decided to quit his post and move to Switzerland; 2) the Rumanian embassy announced that he had died of eating poisoned mushrooms; 3) the Rumanian embassy announced that...
Said the armistice delegation's head, able, energetic Lawyer Lucretiu Patrascanu, longtime leader of Rumania's Communists: "We have no right to be dissatisfied with the terms." The delegation had been in Moscow 14 days-eleven of them waiting around while the Big Three ironed out last-minute differences, three in actual negotiation. It looked as if Rumania had timed her switch expertly. A group of worried Finnish negotiators moved into the Rumanians' quarters in the Spasso Guest House as soon as they were vacated...
Just before they left Moscow, Lucretiu Patrascanu and delegates received the press, confided their plans: "We shall emerge free, democratic and independent. . . . Only through close alliance with the Soviet Union will we be able to rise again...
...Government of National Union" included nine generals, one admiral, six civilians. Among them were representatives of Rumania's major parties: Juliu Maniu (Peasant Party), Dinu Bratianu (Liberal), Constantin Petrescu (Social Democrat), Lucretiu Patrascanu (Communist...
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