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Chapter 11 Exit King Carol

Chapter 11 Exit King Carol 136 stress of emotion, Carol would at last realize where he had failed and would ca pitulate. Carol was indeed henceforth to be domi nated solely by fear. But what he feared above all else was to renounce his secret police, his armed guard, his spies and his censorship; to forsake the means of interning and silencing and even eliminating those who might stand up to him - in short, to abdicate the attributes of unlim- ited personal might over what remained of the country. Of course, following the formidable upset of balance caused by the defeat of France, the situation in Europe and in the rest of the world was such that nothing could conceivably alter the fate of Romania at that particular moment. Romania had been abandoned into the hands of Hitler and Stalin. Nevertheless, in the course of the next few weeks, Carol was to perform his final and futile pirouettes, and to commit his last acts of arrant cowardice, before at last retiring from the scene in universal opprobrium. Chapter 11 Exit King Carol "So you want us to be cunning, do you? Listen, we can't hoodwink Hitler. We've tried it, and it didn't http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southeastern Europe Brill

Chapter 11 Exit King Carol

Southeastern Europe , Volume 16 (1): 136 – Jan 1, 1989
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Brill
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© 1989 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0094-4467
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1876-3332
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10.1163/187633389X00093
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136 stress of emotion, Carol would at last realize where he had failed and would ca pitulate. Carol was indeed henceforth to be domi nated solely by fear. But what he feared above all else was to renounce his secret police, his armed guard, his spies and his censorship; to forsake the means of interning and silencing and even eliminating those who might stand up to him - in short, to abdicate the attributes of unlim- ited personal might over what remained of the country. Of course, following the formidable upset of balance caused by the defeat of France, the situation in Europe and in the rest of the world was such that nothing could conceivably alter the fate of Romania at that particular moment. Romania had been abandoned into the hands of Hitler and Stalin. Nevertheless, in the course of the next few weeks, Carol was to perform his final and futile pirouettes, and to commit his last acts of arrant cowardice, before at last retiring from the scene in universal opprobrium. Chapter 11 Exit King Carol "So you want us to be cunning, do you? Listen, we can't hoodwink Hitler. We've tried it, and it didn't

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Published: Jan 1, 1989

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