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Tangible Assets. But the Russians could afford to bide their time. They had tangible assets. There was popular King Mihai, who, with Marshal Tito, is the only Balkan leader to receive the exalted Soviet Order of Victory medal. There was Premier Peter Groza, Soviet stooge and physical culture enthusiast, whose family remains in his native Transylvania while he lives with his mistress in Bucharest. There were the only two divisions of Rumanian troops repatriated, after proper indoctrination, from Russia. They constituted an incipient praetorian guard...
...Rumania, Premier Peter Groza postponed elections until fall (by then he hopes to have liquidated the opposition). Despite vigorous U.S. protest, Reuben H. Markham, the Christian Science Monitor's veteran Balkan correspondent, was expelled last week for "misrepresenting the situation in Rumania and spreading provocative rumors prejudicial to the cause of unity among the great powers." Markham reluctantly crossed into Greece, retaliated by bitterly telling of concentration camps, political murders, meetings broken up by Red Army troops and Communists. Said he: "The worst that any tyrant ever did in the way of violence . . . is now being matched...
Rumania's Premier Petru Groza got U.S. and British notes, charging that Rumania had failed to live up to the Moscow agreements-had censored stories critical of Communists, had not scheduled free elections. Police broke into the American Military Mission headquarters in Bucharest and arrested all Russian civilian employes. Groza issued a routine denial of the U.S. charges, added a priceless promise: "The elections will take place when our barns are full...
...Rumania, as in other countries, the Opposition was often split, inside and outside the Cabinet. But the Opposition itself was unmistakable. Both National Liberal leader Constantin Dinu Bratianu and Peasant Party chief Juliu Maniu flatly advocated overthrow of the Moscow-backed regime of Premier Peter Groza. Mostly the Opposition program was negatively antiCommunist, but last week Maniu made a positive point : let the U.S. and Britain help the Opposition by recognizing a reconstructed Rumanian Government...
...Rumania, next on Ethridge's calling list, politicians cooked up another warm welcome. Opposition parties stiffened their attitudes toward Premier Peter Groza's Russian-sponsored regime. The Government showed uneasiness on uncooperative King Mihai's 24th birthday, seized Liberal and Peasant party leaders, held them for hours. Otherwise the Groza cabinet continued to ignore the King, passed decrees over his head...