Word: bessarabian
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...something about 40,000 German "tourists" who came for Easter and stayed. Germans who had lived for generations in the Rumanian Banat passed the watchword, "Hitler will soon be here." In view of the general peril, Rumania and Russia were reported to have agreed to reduce tension on the Bessarabian frontier by removing troops six and a quarter miles from each side of the line. In the oil fields preparations were made to pump the oil wells full of concrete if Rumania is invaded by anybody...
...Bessarabian Territory which Russia hopes to regain...
From 1915 to 1917, he was on the Bessarabian and Rumanian fronts. After the March Revolution in Russia, Disciplinarian Mannerheim began to have trouble with his younger officers, tried to punish them for insubordination, was overruled by the General Staff. No democrat, but an officer who had been close to the Tsar, he was in a ticklish position. Conveniently developing a sprained foot, he left the front on a doctor's orders, was met" in Odessa by a telegram relieving him of his command. On Dec. 6, 1917, the Finnish Diet declared that region's independence from Russia...
...that was before Finland. Last week the defense picture completely changed. The General Staff poured troops back into Bessarabia and rushed construction of border fortifications. King Carol took Premier George Tatarescu and most of his Cabinet by special train on a four-day Bessarabian inspection trip. In Chisinau, capital of the province, leaders of the Rus sian, Ukrainian and German minorities were brought around to meet His Majesty. They swore : "We pledge our lives for our beloved Rumanian fatherland...
...land and sea approaches against the day when the "land of workers and peasants" would have to be defended unto death. Another theory was that Dictator Stalin was determined to restore to his country the lands that belonged to the Tsars. If so, then Rumania's Bessarabian territory would be next after Finland on the list of conquests...