Word: transylvania
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...afford to bide their time. They had tangible assets. There was popular King Mihai, who, with 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...
Boundaries. Again the man in possession called the tune. From Finland, Russia is to get the warm water port of Petsamo and a lease on the Baltic naval base at Porkala; from Rumania, 79,300 square miles of Bessarabia. Other shifts in the Balkans give Transylvania back to Rumania, southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. The British and French gain at the expense of Italy: the Dodecanese Islands go to British-controlled Greece; the communes of Briga and Tenda and other bits of the Italian Alps go to France. But Italy is allowed to keep the South Tyrol over Austrian protest. Trieste...
...democratic aid in solving Hungary's economic and political difficulties. Would the U.S. and Britain be willing to support Hungarian requests for a moratorium on the crushing $200 million reparations burden to Russia? Would the Western democracies side with Hungary on such matters as the revision of Transylvania's award to Rumania? Would the West press harder, against Russian reluctance, for the internationalization of the Danube...
Smathers grew up on a Kentucky tobacco farm. He graduated from Transylvania College in 1929 and from Louisville...
This maneuver had been arranged with great speed. The new Government made its "request" March 8; Stalin granted it on March 10 in an extraordinary, personal letter to Premier Groza and his Foreign Minister, a non-Communist politician named George Tatarescu. But the return of Transylvania to Rumania was an Allied policy, actively supported by Britain and agreed to by the U.S. when the Big Three signed the Rumanian armistice last September. In his letter of blessing, Stalin took pains to base his decision on the Allied precedent. He may well have had an eye cocked at London and Washington...