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...Russia's first grasp for tighter government power was blocked when the U.S. and Britain threatened not to recognize the Rumanian government if elections were rigged. Last week, after a long period of careful preparation, electoral lists were once more announced. Result: dithyrambic cries of foul play from aging (73) National Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu and National Liberal Party Leader Constantin Bratianu. They claimed that the lists had been drawn up in such a way as to favor the Soviet-supported candidates. While tension grew between the government and these two big opposition parties, the government itself threatened...
...Marshal Tito, is the only Balkan leader to receive the exalted Soviet Order of Victory medal. There was Premier Peter Groza, Soviet stooge and physical culture enthusiast, whose family remains in his native Transylvania while he lives with his mistress in Bucharest. There were the only two divisions of Rumanian troops repatriated, after proper indoctrination, from Russia. They constituted an incipient praetorian guard...
...Jump in Time. It was not the first time that quick-moving Sosthenes Behn had been one jump ahead of expropriation. In January 1941 I.T. & T. had sold its Rumanian subsidiary to the Rumanian Government for nearly $14 million in American dollars, a profit of nearly $2 million. Only a few days later, Germany had control of Rumania...
Cried New Zealand's Delegate W. J. Jordan (as Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky moved that France be barred from voting rights on the Rumanian and other east European treaty commissions): "Quack! Quack! Quack!" Said Senator Tom Connally (as he embarked to join Secretary of State Byrnes in Paris): "All you do is sit all day going...
...future of Danubian peoples depended less on whether they lived under the Rumanian or Hungarian or other national flag than whether they were allowed to trade with the whole world-and not merely with Russia. The U.S. had offered a clause for all the Balkan treaties: "Navigation of the Danube . . . shall be free and open on terms of entire equality to nationals, vessels of commerce and goods of all states." Russia has not accepted the clause. The free Danube thus becomes the most significant issue presented to the Paris conference...