Word: bucharest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...confidence of his brother officers. He has been Chief of the General Staff and War Minister. But of late he was confined by order of King Carol at a monastery in Rumanian territory which was ceded last fortnight to Hungary. Last week he was released and summoned to Bucharest...
...Bucharest the whole front page of the anti-semitic Universul was devoted to an article in which Minister of Interior David Popescu certified with details that the ex-King is an "immoral, epileptic, degenerate exploiter and usurper." M. Popescu summed up: "Future generations of Rumanians will remember Carol as the greatest misfortune his people ever suffered. Today ended part of the purgatory which our people have endured for ten years...
...statesman who capitulated at Vienna on orders from Carol II, Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilescu, last week suffered a nervous breakdown on the train back to Bucharest. But more than nerves were breaking. Rumanian editors, who for years had supported the regime, suddenly turned around and told the people of graft and corruption in building the Carol Line, denounced rampant rottenness in State and Court...
...great creamy palace on Calea Victoriei while the mob screamed and the Iron Guard fired shots in the air, but the rioting never got beyond Army control. It was the Army's redheaded General Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu who suddenly emerged on top of the pile at Bucharest...
...Bucharest there was a carnival of arresting "grafters." Former premiers, former ministers, rich men and almost anyone who ever had anything to do with a Government contract were locked up. It was radiorated that $11,000,000 had been found in a secret Government fund. New York Timesman Eugen Kovacs discovered that Berlin by no means regards the Iron Guard as its trusty agent. "German circles are more inclined toward General Antonescu than [toward] the Iron Guard," cabled Kovacs, declaring the Guard is badly split by personal rivalries within itself. Red Dog declined to form a new Cabinet of Iron...