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Foreign Minister Ana Pauker still runs the show (with the vigilant help of the Russian embassy), still enjoys the Kremlin's confidence, despite rumors to the contrary. The Rumanian army has been thoroughly purged. The Russians have three, possibly four, divisions in Rumania. If they wanted to take the country over, they could do it by phone...
...wrote Communist Mike Gold in last Sunday's issue of Manhattan's Daily Worker. The article also paid touching tribute to Rumania's Red Ana Pauker as "a mature, motherly woman with greying hair set in a youthful bob. She has the finest and-most luminous brown eyes . . ." By way of illustration, the Worker ran a drawing of Comrade Pauker looking tender, handsome and soulful. That picture of Ana Pauker came about as close to what she really looks like as the Worker's account of a free, sunny Rumania came to picturing the country...
Likeliest purpose of the arrests: another show trial, to provide scapegoats for Rumania's rapidly worsening internal situation. For beautiful Rumania continues to be bled white by its Russian masters and their puppets while most Rumanians (with the exception of fat Mother Pauker and the Communist hierarchy) live in deepening misery...
...been reported under Moscow's suspicion and on the verge of death or demotion. Nobody in the West could be quite sure who was in high favor or in hot water. Western observers thought that the likeliest purge candidates for 1950 were Rumania's Ana Pauker (who was conspicuously absent from the last Cominform conclave), Czechoslovakia's President Klement Gottwald and Foreign Minister Vladimir dementis...
...latter part of November. (French diplomatic sources spotted it at the resort of Galyateto, in the Matra mountains.) "Titoism" was spreading. One of the most exciting rumors current in Europe was that there might soon be a major addition to the list of dissidents: Rumania's Amazonian Ana Pauker, announced the Rome radio, was not at the meeting and was reported to be in difficulties with Moscow...