EX-KING MICHAEL FORCED TO ABDICATE
| Received Thursday, 9.45 a.m. i GENEVA, Jan. 7. ! Ex-King Michael of Rumania had j either to bow to force or become a I prisoner, says the Journal de I Geneva, quoting a "sure source." It ' adds that the Prime Minister, Dr. i Groza, sent an urgent and unexi pected summons to Michael on De- : cember 30. I Michael drove to the Palace of i his aunt, Princess Elizabeth, in Bucharest. There Dr. Groza and the Communist Deputy Prime Minister, (Dr. Georgiu-Dej, presented a set abdication form and asked Michael. ; to sigh it immediately. Michael, ex- | tremely surprised, asked for time to study the uocument. Then, outside , he saw -that a regiment, loyal" to the ; Government, had surrounded the Palace, Michael did not wish to bring fresh tragedies upon his coumry and signed.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 January 1948, Page 5
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