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...average; the average weight of Yugoslav children is down 24%. In Italy alone, 2,000,000 children need extra rations, 220,000 have eye-destroying trachoma. Only 30% of Austria's children can be considered healthy; in Poland, 30% of the children under seven have rickets; 90% of Rumanian children have bad teeth. Tuberculosis, hunger's fellow traveler, is up everywhere: 1% of Europe's children have active tuberculosis, two-thirds of them are tuberculin positives. Among Austrian school children, tuberculosis has increased 35% between...
...Moravia, they were shorn bald; in Soviet Russia, they were put to work in factories and on collective farms-their songs, complained the Communists, were too melancholy. "Astrologists and psychologists are taking away the bread from the mouths of our wives and mothers," complained the chairman of a Rumanian gypsy congress. In Poland, gypsies developed a kind of gypsy Zionism, demanding that Britain grant them a national home in India, the country of their origin.* Nothing came...
Dispossessed: Rumania's ex-King Michael (and family*), for "carrying on increasing maneuvers abroad against the interests of the Rumanian people." They lost 159 castles, 400,000 acres of land, 3,991,502 shares of stock, some yachts, and the right to vote the straight ticket (Communist...
...young man entered a lounge of London's Claridge's Hotel, the hastily assembled gathering of U.S., British and Rumanian newsmen shifted uncertainly in their seats. At last one or two of them heaved to their feet. The others followed suit. Gravely and with some embarrassment King Michael of Rumania bowed, then quietly, and in good English, read his statement: "This act [abdication] was imposed upon me by force by a government installed and maintained in power by a foreign country, a government utterly unrepresentative of the will of the Rumanian people.... I do not consider myself bound...
...seems rather peculiar," a Rumanian Communist official murmured suavely in Bucharest, "that it took the ex-King two months to make up his mind that his hand had been forced." Michael's difficulty, however, had not lain in making up his mind, but in finding an opportunity to speak it. He had been negotiating with the Communists for the salvage of some of his Rumanian properties...