Word: roumania
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...very shocked when I heard that Roumania, my native country had declared war on the U. S. This unreasonable move was certainly forced by the Nazis on the pro-German leaders of Roumania to prove that this was a war of "Europe against America and Britain." Such a move does not represent the feelings of the Roumanian people, who have always been, since the last war, when they were allied with the democracies, strongly anti-German...
...Roumania has suffered a lot since the defeat of France, to which she was so closely linked. A great part of Transylvania was taken away from her on the orders of Hitler and his satellites; King Carol had to abdicate; the country went through a period of bloody internal disorders, after the German occupation; all this might account for the fact that the people, in need of unity and order, rallied behind General Antonescu who seemed ready to destroy the disturbing elements such as the Nazi Iron Guardists...
They have taken away most of the commodities in the usual Nazi manner. There has been strong opposition to the continuation of the war after the recapturing of Bossarabia and Bucovina. All reports coming from Roumania, either in the press or from the people who have told me personally what they have seen, agree that many generals have been shot because they did not want to keep up a fight for non-Roumanian territory...
Other countries represented include Alaska, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Guatemala, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Holland, Hungary, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Roumania, Siam, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Vonezuela, and Wales...
...between, the reader is familiarized with the current status,--in the nation,--of the tenant farmer problem and,--at Harvard,--of the great Sorokin controversy; with the peculiar and lamentable treatment of Indian students by Indian Universities, and with the more recent developments in fascist circles in Roumania. This is surely evidence of catholic taste and wide range interests...