Word: transylvania
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...Danube of blue flowers winding through its length. It shows, besides the Hungary of the Treaty of Trianon, all the provinces taken away by that treaty: Slovakia and Ruthenia, ceded to Czecho-Slovakia; Croatia, ceded to Yugoslavia; the Banat, ceded to Yugoslavia and Rumania; and the broad plateau of Transylvania, which Rumania also took. Around the map is a border of flowers spelling out in Hungarian...
...world its true constructive character, its clarifying, its civilizing spirit." As to that, there was some argument, particularly in Rumania, but no one could gainsay the Axis victory. When Russia began the dismemberment of Rumania last June, the small but tough Hungarian Army was poised on the edge of Transylvania...
...before Sept. 1. King Carol began to wriggle and stall. Last month, with Bulgaria's claim to Dobruja agreed to but still unfulfilled, Hungary's Premier Count Paul Teleki and Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky sent delegates to Turnu Severin in Rumania to present their claim to Transylvania. The delegates were told that Rumania would not consider ceding more than one-fifth of Transylvania. The delegates went home to Budapest and Count Csaky had a talk with the German and Italian Ministers, then went off to Vienna, taking Count Teleki with him. Hungarian warplanes made practice flights over...
...Bucharest cagey King Carol, who had wooed the Axis too late in life, heard about it when he received a frantic telephone call from his Foreign Minister telling him that Germany and Italy demanded that Rumania submit the dispute to arbitration-i.e., surrender a whacking chunk of Transylvania. The King had until 5 o'clock the next morning. His only consolation was that Germany would guarantee to him what would be left of his Kingdom. He summoned his Crown Council to the Palace, and throughout most of the night King & Councilors cudgeled their brains for a dodge. Just...
...Popoff, Ambassador Cadere went, now with a warning, now with a concession, begging the retention of the important city of Silistra, asking reparations for public works. At a moment when Rumania seemed to stiffen, Hungary ominously growled from another quarter that she would accept no less than 75% of Transylvania. Rumania backed down...