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...Colonel Ana Pauker returned with her regiment to the country from whose squalor and jails she had risen. She proceeded to return evil for evil-and, in true Communist fashion, evil for good. Because she wanted to play along with his Liberal Party for a while, she left Tata-rescu, who had jailed her, in the Foreign Ministry for two years; but Maniu, who had helped her, she clapped into prison. Said she: "In his old age, Maniu has earned his rest." Maniu is now dying, still behind bars...
...moreover, many are owned by France and Great Britain. When the German delegation requested the Rumanians to commandeer these, Rumania refused. The Germans departed, but scarcely had they passed the frontier before Rumania had changed Governments. Premier Constantin Argetoianu resigned, and King Carol appointed 47-year-old George Tata-rescu to head a new Government...
...avoided only by giving whichever party is strong enough to win 40% unchallenged power. "Our system combines many of the best features of Democracy as well as Fascism," Rumanian courtiers are fond of purring. Last week they were aghast as King Carol's unpopular Premier George Tata-rescu's followers were found to have won only 38.5.% of the seats...
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