Word: transylvanians
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...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...
...Budapest, Count Bela Teleki, spokesman for the Transylvanian Deputies in Hungary's Lower Chamber, cried: "We must take action to insure that the shameful conditions [in Rumanian Transylvania], under which Hungarian nationals are robbed of all their possessions and are oppressed, end immediately...
That these trials of the most turbulent 18 months in the history of Great Britain did not keep Producer Gabriel Pascal from turning out a polished and distinguished product is a transcendent Oscar in the onetime cavalryman's lap. The squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, determined to use his hard-won franchise on the world's richest mine of entertainment material, not only had to play cook & bottle washer but also had the redoubtable Shavian personality to contend with...
...late for the Council meeting, the Transylvanian Peasant Party leader, onetime Premier Juliu Maniu, turned up in Bucharest that morning, protesting bitterly. As news 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...