Word: transylvanians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dances of Marosszék (Andor Foldes, pianist; Vox, 3 sides). Kodály (pronounced Kó-die-ee), who with the late Béla Bartók spent years researching and recording Hungarian folk music, based these picturesque fantasies on Transylvanian dances; Pianist Foldes plays them with the insight and technique of a native Hungarian, which he is. Recording: good...
...Mihai tried a surprise move: he appointed elegant, 71-year-old Prince Barbu Stirbey, lover of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, to form a new Government. When Stirbey's attempt failed, Mihai appointed Dr. Peter Groza, aggressive leader of the troublemaking Democratic National Front - a thickset, moonfaced Transylvanian in the early 60s, whose large inherited land holdings qualified him to head the Ploughmen's Front. Until last year Groza was a small-time Balkan politician who made headlines when two angry landlords beat him up in the foyer of Bucharest's Athenee Palace Hotel...
...Russians were already less than 50 miles from Budapest. A tank battle was already raging on the Hungarian plain. The country was ideal for motorized attack. By this week Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky had widened his front to 120 miles, captured Szeged, Hungary's second largest city, the Transylvanian capital of Cluj, and drawn near to Debrecen, where Patriot Louis Kossuth once declared Hungary's independence. But Malinovsky had a long, tenuous supply line, might be delayed until it was strengthened...
...Ukraine, through Bessarabia, through the Galati Gap, through the heart of Rumania at breakneck pace. To the east, General Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine Army was mopping up Nazi stragglers on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. To the north, General Rodion Malinovsky was stabbing through the Transylvanian Alps to the great plain of Hungary...
Across the hot plain, through dust clouds so thick that headlights were turned on in the daytime, Marshal Rodion Mal-inovsky's men chased German remnants toward the Iron Gate, where the Danube cuts through the Transylvanian Alps. Other Malinovsky forces swarmed to the Danube and the Bulgarian border on a 65-mile front. General Feodor Tolbukhin's army group reached southern Dobruja below Constanta. This territory has been Rumania's (disregarding Hitler's 1940 rearrangements) since 1913; Russia began throwing its weight around in the Balkans by referring to it, in the Moscow communique...