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Timid, red-nosed Grigor Moisil, Rumanian ambassador to Turkey, may have longed to do much the same thing. He heard that Foreign Minister Ana Pauker had purged his good friend Justice Minister Lucretiu Patrascanu, and lived in fear that he himself would be called home. Last week, within a 24-hour span, four announcements in Ankara gave a clue to his state of mind: 1) the Turkish government announced that Grigor had decided to quit his post and move to Switzerland; 2) the Rumanian embassy announced that he had died of eating poisoned mushrooms; 3) the Rumanian embassy announced that...
...formidable force compared to the U.S., British and continental troops facing them. There is, however, little evidence that the Russians have been building up their garrison in Germany or preparing it to strike. Some evidence exists of increasing Russian military concentration much farther east, between Kiev and the Rumanian border. This might be preparation for an attack. On the other hand, it might be a Russian defensive measure, springing from the Kremlin's uneasiness over the uneasy satellite countries on Russia's border...
Flight from the Heathen. Old Zvi, her father, would not live in the land Ana rules. Two years ago Zvi came to Ana asking her help for a group of Rumanian Jews. She received him amiably on a Saturday afternoon. Coffee and cake was brought in. Old Zvi exploded: "How dare you offer me hot coffee on a Sabbath! Have you gone mad?" Ana, trying to calm her father, led him to the kitchen and showed him the electric percolator. She explained that, since no one needed to strike a match, no religious law was being violated, but he called...
...Gisella Perl is a pleasant, well-dressed Rumanian doctor who does not look her 43 years.* Nor does her face betray her fearful experiences. Before the Allies liberated her from a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, her parents, husband and son had been killed by the Germans. And-according to some theologians-Dr. Perl has killed about 3,000 people herself. They were of undetermined sex: unborn children...
...news of another Rumanian woman, see INTERNATIONAL...