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...level talks about his job in Bucharest. The Rumanian Communists' power grab was complete, and Michael, king in a Communist-dominated country, had become a royal cipher. The stunned immobility with which Rumanians watched their beloved National Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu be crushed under Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker's steamroller told Michael he had not long to reign-even as Pauker's virtual prisoner...
Last week the well-to-do residents of Bucharest's smart Parcu Filipescu section had something to talk about. A woman as Foreign Minister of Rumania, the first to serve in such a post anywhere! And such a woman! Although Ana Pauker, mother of three and self-made widow, lived among them in the Parcu district, kept a lakeside villa at Snagov, and rode in the swankest limousines (bullet-proofed), she had but lately "arrived," in a way most ominous for her neighbors...
Husband Added & Subtracted. In 1921 she joined the Communist Party. By 1924, when the Government ban on Communism forced her to go underground, she was a member of the Central Committee of the Rumanian Communists. On one of her underground visits to Switzerland she met and married Marcel Pauker, a Rumanian Communist engineer and journalist. Together they spent the late 1920s in the U.S., working for the Soviet trading agency Amtorg...
...George Tatarescu, who could turn his coat faster than Houdini, had outlived his usefulness to the Communists as Foreign Minister. The Communists kicked him out. On the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, on the eve of St. Michael's Day (his own "name" day), King Michael named Ana Pauker, who was not even one of his subjects, to be his Foreign Minister...
...general staff of the world revolution." The importance of the move was highlighted by the presence of Andrei A. Zhdanov and Georgi M. Malenkov, both members of Russia's ruling Politburo and close advisers of Joseph Stalin. Other top Communist brass who attended: Rumania's Ana Pauker; Yugoslavia's Vice Premier Edward Kardelj; Poland's Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka and Minister of Industry Hilary Mine; Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist Party; Italy's Luigi Longo and Eugenio Reale, and delegates from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary...