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...Bucharest apartment last week, obdurate, old (74) Juliu Maniu, leader of the opposition to pro-Communist Petru Groza's Government, sat at lunch with two friends. Unannounced, an officer of Rumania's S.S.I, (secret political police) walked in, arrested Maniu. As he departed, the S.S.I, man offered his hand to one of Maniu's friends, saying: "I suppose you don't want to shake hands with a man who is doing this?" Replied the friend: "Oh, that's all right. I'm a surgeon-I've got blood on my hands...
...part of the Molotov answer to the "Marshall approach," Rumania was being leeched of its last drops of democracy in preparation for a paper peace. A ratified treaty would mean withdrawal of the Red Army, and that might mean the downfall of Groza, the triumph of Maniu. To make sure that would not happen, Moscow's Andrei Vishinsky had ordered Groza: "Get your house in order...
...government power was blocked when the U.S. and Britain threatened not to recognize the Rumanian government if elections were rigged. Last week, after a long period of careful preparation, electoral lists were once more announced. Result: dithyrambic cries of foul play from aging (73) National Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu and National Liberal Party Leader Constantin Bratianu. They claimed that the lists had been drawn up in such a way as to favor the Soviet-supported candidates. While tension grew between the government and these two big opposition parties, the government itself threatened to split on the election issue...
...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...
Said Juliu Maniu, aged leader of the Peasant Party: "The only difference between the Russian and the German occupation is that when the Germans were here we had a Rumanian dictator. Now. instead of Antonescu. we have Vishinsky...