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...Froze all Rumanian funds in the U. S. (estimate: $100,000,000) after German troops entered the country...
...threw flowers at the Jerries as they marched into Sibiu and Seghisoara? Isn't it awful that the Nazi G. H. Q. is to be in the building where Carol's guards used to stay? Wasn't it typical of the Germans to fly the whole Rumanian Air Force over our heads today, as if that would frighten...
...distant cousin of Sir Samuel Hoare, he used to be quite a figure of a man-tall, with a handsome white-haired head, careless in dress and indolent of speech, kindly, dry, hospitable. He was a great friend of Carol, and used to converse with the King in Rumanian with a splendid British accent. But his health had gone, his retirement was long overdue, and the driving out of Carol left him at 58 broken and bitter. Last week he scurried about trying to avert a break in British-Rumanian relations long enough to burn his Legation's secret...
...days the bounding warrior reviewed his troops along the Po. He stood on platforms, in automobiles, on hills. He reviewed veterans and boys who had been trained from the age of six. He showed Italy's might before the German, Japanese and Spanish Ambassadors, the Hungarian, Bulgarian and Rumanian Ministers. He made no speeches, just shouted over and over: "We are ready...
Ready for What? All these preparations were for something. Official explanations of the German infiltration into the Balkans were not convincing: "There are no troops in Rumania, only instructors. ... If there are any troops, they are to guard the Rumanian oil wells against an attack by the British. . . ." Nor were the dispatches of correspondents promoting a fight between Germany and Russia convincing. These made much of "massed troops" in Russia's Northern Bukovina, the partial evacuation of Cer-nauti on the Rumania-Russian border, rumored movements of Soviet tanks and motorized units, the visit to Bessarabia of Russian Commissar...