Personage & Cabbage Soup

For 16 years Bolshevik guards armed to the teeth have been turning back anyone trying to get into Russia from Rumania. To emphasize the wrath of the two nations at each other, the last connection between them, a railway bridge, was dynamited. In Soviet geographies Red moppets learn that the Rumanian province of Bessarabia ought to be, must be Russian. Punished is that Soviet child who does not draw Bessarabia as part of Russia, color it the same as the rest of the Soviet Union.

Last week the Bolshevik frontier guards glared at a pompous, obviously capitalistic person who came chugging across the frontier River Dniester, made bold to land on Soviet soil. "You can't land." they told him. "Go back!"

The pompous person drew himself up, sputtered in Rumanian for some minutes. "He says that the Kingdom of Rumania and the Soviet Union have recognized each other." explained an interpreter. "He says he is the Minister Plenipotentiary of King Carol and that this is his diplomatic passport."

Doubtfully the Bolshevik guards fingered it. Grudgingly they wired Moscow, and in Russia 36 hours is quick time in which to get a telegraphic response. While the Rumanian personage fumed, his Communist guards made him thoroughly uncomfortable by giving him some of their own black bread and cabbage soup. Then like a bolt from the blue came Moscow's answer, an airplane luxuriously equipped. Into it popped Minister Cuintu and zoomed off to his post over rough country innocent of railways.

Meanwhile the new Soviet envoy to Rumania, smart Minister Mikhail Ostrovsky, arrived at Bucharest by a comfortable roundabout route. When he presented his credentials to King Carol without mentioning Bessarabia, Rumanian editors concluded that, despite Soviet geography books, Dictator Stalin has decided to drop that question.

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