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...Gheorghe Tatarescu, Rumania, fired 1947, confined to his home...
Last week, Western capitals heard some new reports on life in Rumania. Bucharest police recently rounded up several hundred Rumanian politicians and generals, most of them aging and long retired. Among them: George Tatarescu, 58, who was Premier under King Carol's regime, then turned his coat to serve the Communists as Foreign Minister until November 1947; and Octogenarian Constantin (Dinu) Bratianu, for years the leader of Rumania's National Liberal Party...
...arrested, escaped, arrested again. Premier George Tatarescu brought her to trial; Juliu Maniu, leader of the Peasant Party, helped her and publicly defended her right to free speech. She was sentenced to ten years in jail. There Ana, who had always hated sewing, became expert at embroidery, sold her own work and that of other women prisoners. During Spain's Civil War Ana, jailed in Bucharest, embroidered a scarf for La Pasionaria...
Last week formal glories crowned her behind-scenes power. Opportunist George Tatarescu, who could turn his coat faster than Houdini, had outlived his usefulness to the Communists as Foreign Minister. The Communists kicked him out. On the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, on the eve of St. Michael's Day (his own "name" day), King Michael named Ana Pauker, who was not even one of his subjects, to be his Foreign Minister...
This maneuver had been arranged with great speed. The new Government made its "request" March 8; Stalin granted it on March 10 in an extraordinary, personal letter to Premier Groza and his Foreign Minister, a non-Communist politician named George Tatarescu. But the return of Transylvania to Rumania was an Allied policy, actively supported by Britain and agreed to by the U.S. when the Big Three signed the Rumanian armistice last September. In his letter of blessing, Stalin took pains to base his decision on the Allied precedent. He may well have had an eye cocked at London and Washington...