Word: transylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly, however, Rumanian public opinion reasserted itself last week. In Transylvania and Bukovina peasant mobs sacked and burned Jewish homes in the countryside, then grew bolder, began loot- ing Jewish shops...
Above their barricade the truculent peasants raised a banner. "We Will Kill Every Jew In Transylvania and Buko-vina!" Presently in Bucharest a young anti-Semite forced his way into the Min- istry of Interior, shot acting Minister Constantin Angelescu in the hip, neck, head-perhaps fatally...
...first scheduled stop was made at Cluj in Transylvania. In a general's uniform "M. Caraiman" tested out popular sentiment, was "well though not wildly cheered. It was announced that Carol "insisted" upon flying "on to Bucharest," although this would be "dangerous" as "darkness" was approaching. At this point the building up of legend, which surrounds every King and is part of his royal armor, began...