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...Munte. George Bratianu, scion of the dynasty which secured Rumania its independence, kept it going through World War I, was reported assassinated. Even Red Dog Antonescu was warned to stay quiet or he would be killed. But he was bold enough to put under protective arrest onetime Premiers George Tatarescu, Constantin Argetoianu and Ion Gigurtu, who acquiesced to the cession of northern Transylvania last summer (TIME, Sept...
Moreover, before the Rumanian Senate, Youth Leader General Theophilus Sidorovici disclosed that Benito Mussolini would guarantee Rumanian frontiers. That Carol was at any rate listening to Herr Hitler's propositions was evident when Premier George Tatarescu's Government released 786 Iron Guard terrorists from jail...
...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...
...Rumania, generally picked as the next victim for Stalin's expansionist program, Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu soft-soaped the Soviet Union: "We are convinced of the similarity existing between the Soviet's affirmed policy of peace and the Rumanian policy of independence." Earlier, George Tatarescu, the new pro-Ally Premier, made a bid for democratic sympathy when he promised to lift the hitherto strict Rumanian press censorship by allowing newspapers to give vent to "impartial criticism and the voicing of grievances against the Government...
Poet and playwright, formerly identified with Rumania's very conservative Liberal Party, M. Tatarescu is known as a deadly foe of the pro-Nazi Iron Guards. At the war's outbreak, he was Rumanian Ambassador to France. King Carol considered him a Francophile, and so interested was the King in keeping Rumania neutral that he recalled the Ambassador for no other reason than that he was too much of an Allied partisan. His new appointment was accepted in France as good news, in Germany as bad; Rumania had at least entered the picket lines of the Allied camp...