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...fertile country, once one of Europe's breadbaskets, had to import grain. But Hungarian steel and aluminum fattened the Soviet war potential and bulletheaded Boss Rakosi was so well regarded in Moscow that he escaped the cosmopolite" purge which carried off Czechoslovakia's Slansky, Rumania's Pauker and other Jewish Communist leaders before Stalin's death...
...could also carry hods, puddle steel and unload barges. "The hardest-worked sex in the country and perhaps in the world," cried appalled Feminist Perle Mesta last year after seeing her sisters under the shawl in Russia. In 37 years no woman ever sat in the Soviet Politburo. Ana Pauker, onetime Rumanian Foreign Minister, is one of the few to reach top rank in the Communist world, and Pauker is now out of power and out of sight...
Scapegoat Needed. As recently as three years ago, Luca was at the top of Rumania's Communist heap-along with homely Foreign Minister Ana Pauker (also purged, demoted, and possibly awaiting trial) and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who is still Premier. But in 1952 the Red regime drastically devalued the Rumanian leu, thus depriving the people of most of their savings. News of the impending devaluation leaked out; party favorites and some others got rid of their old currency ahead of time. As Finance Minister, Luca took the rap. In addition, the regime now needed a villain to blame...
...Pauker, Rumania, ousted 1952, reportedly awaiting trial...
...point, "that enjoys the highest military position held by woman since Joan of Arc? . . . For an introductory answer, see the article on Mrs. Anna Rosenberg in the Reader's Digest of February 1951. For an interesting portrait of another modern woman . . . see the similar article on Ana Rabinsohn Pauker in the same magazine...