Word: pauker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since Lionel Strongfort. At 64 he runs three miles before breakfast every day. He likes to have his bodyguard, who always carries a Luger, referee his tennis matches. Groza cheats, and his opponents rarely argue. Nevertheless, Groza is putty in Ana's hands. He goes to Mme. Pauker before leaving official functions and asks: "Do you still need...
...Pauker, personally incorruptible, started sweeping the day she became Foreign Minister. For two days, her ministry was surrounded by troops while the housecleaning was in progress; she even purged three elevator men. In recent weeks, Communist big shots have toppled into jail like so many drunks on Saturday night; Ana has had to transform two theaters into prisons. Among those arrested: beautiful Florica Bagdasar, Minister of Public Health; General Michael Lascar of Pauker's own Tudor Vladimirescu division; General Constantin Ionescu, chief of the General Staff; Constantin Doncea, deputy mayor of Bucharest, colonel in the Red army, member...
...said: "I've heard Dinnyes likes to have girls presented to him. This won't happen in Bucharest; I don't approve of official assignations." Hungarian Communists, hurt by Ana's attitude, say that Comrade Dinnyes found his own girls without any help from Comrade Pauker...
...Balkans are seething with the battle between Ana and the "nationalists." A Rumanian who lives in a town near the frontier told an American: "This is the damndest clearing station you ever saw. Every night it's full of anti-Pauker Communists escaping into Yugoslavia and anti-Tito Communists running the other direction into Rumania...
Soon afterwards he declared that he would no longer live among these "heathen," and went to Palestine. Ana Pauker provided him with an escort to the border...