The Romanian Question

I AIN’T DRUNK

In the case of Roumania and King Carol, Goebbels had a superb opportunity to demonstrate his perverted talents. Ten years’ experience as Hitler’s supreme disseminator of calumny and hatred had made him master of every trick and twist of this iniquitous profession. Since he had made the science of Jew-baiting with the poison pen his specialty, he found no difficulty in applying his evil genius to the peculiar conditions prevailing in Roumania where, for many decades, the ‘problem’ of the Jews had been raised to a front rank political issue.

King Carol, Hitler and Lupescu

BUT THE SIXTIES and seventies made him cry. He couldn’t stand the sense of loss. How had they all been persuaded to hand their keys back to their jailors?

Was freedom really so frightening?

Evidently a lot of Romanians thought so.