Word: transylvania
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...build up an Army, an Air Force and the nearest thing in the Balkans to a Maginot Line - the Carol Line. These fortifications were to bulwark Rumania against an expected attack from Hungary. When in Vienna last fortnight Germany and Italy forced Rumania to give up one-half of Transylvania and the Carol Line to Hungary (TIME, Sept. 9), the instinctive reaction of many Rumanians was that the Government had let them be robbed. It took no great efforts of the Nazi Iron Guard to set them shouting: "Down with the traitors! We should have fought! We have been sold...
Before & After. During the whole agonizing abdication crisis Hungarian troops, led by Regent Horthy on a white charger, were slowly moving into Transylvania. Tens of thousands of Rumanian peasants were being shunted to new homes. They and their chickens and ducks overflowed Rumanian railway cars so tightly jammed that most of the human and animal freight got in & out of windows instead of doors. Small bands of Rumanian soldiers and petty officers announced they would resist the Hungarians by waging guerrilla warfare in the Carpathians, but none of these bands caused the occupying Hungarian forces much trouble...
...filtered out during the day to a shocked and sullen Rumania, protests grew ominous and muttering crowds of Bucharest citizens gathered outside the Palace. Even Iron Guardists were disillusioned. But to King Carol and a majority of his Councilors the choice was brutally simple: they could lose half of Transylvania, or they could lose Rumania...
...emissary of Regent Nicholas Horthy, especially picked for the purpose, kissed Count Teleki on both cheeks. The map in Liberty Square was replanted to obliterate the border between Hungary and the ceded wedge of Transylvania...
...their joy Hungarians forgot that whenever Germany gives Hungary something, she takes more for herself. By guaranteeing the shrunken frontiers of Rumania, Germany had squelched Hungary's claim to the rest of Transylvania and Rumania's part of the Banat...