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...Rumanian Trade Minister Gheorghe Cioara has just finished a nine-day tour of West Germany. Rumanian Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu is headed for Rome, and Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki for Sweden. French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville in recent weeks has popped up in Warsaw, Sofia and Bucharest. Fortnight from now Charles de Gaulle goes to Moscow...
...Moscow had watched with glee as Charles de Gaulle hacked away intransigently at the NATO alliance. Now, on the other side of the eroding Iron Curtain, the Russians were getting a taste of the same galling medicine. Out of many Eastern European capitals last week came reports of a Rumanian round-robin message to the nations of the Warsaw Pact...
...Though a Rumanian Foreign Ministry spokesman blandly denied that such a letter had been circulated, there was little doubt of its existence. Its corrosive contents fit perfectly with the nationalistic attitudes of Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu, whose stinging anti-Soviet speech only a week earlier had triggered a flying visit from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
...Human Community." Ceausescu hit hard from the outset. When Rumanian Reds went to Moscow in 1920, he declared, Lenin's Comintern showed "ignorance of the situation in our country," but nonetheless insisted on dictating Rumanian party policy-"though this was the inalienable right of the party itself." That, according to Ceausescu, laid the groundwork for Moscow's sellout of the Rumanian Reds during the early days of World War II-through the expedient of the 1940 Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact...
...Instead of appreciating the correctness of the struggle against the Hitlerites," Ceausescu said bitterly, "the Comintern criticized the Rumanian Communists for their activity against German aggression . . . Rumania, abandoned by all European powers, was actually thrown into the arms of the Hitlerite forces. Resistance to the fascist dictatorship included broad circles among the bourgeois parties and the royal palace...