Volume 36, Number 13 · August 17, 1989
Romania: Defying the Tyrant
By William Pfaff
A writer of the 1940s, R.G. Waldeck, said of the German princes who served as kings of Romania between 1866 and World War II that 'they all went a bit haywire under the violent sun and deep blue skies. They could not take it. They overdid everything.' The Romanians themselves, she said, were 'flexible, realistic fatalistic,' indestructibly enduring all with a conviction 'of the transitory quality of everything.'
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