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At least 182 killed across Lebanon in large wave of Israeli strikes

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The latest escalation in the decades-long conflict between Hezbollah and Israel erupted when the group fired rockets into Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the opening stages of the war.

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Hundreds Are Reported Killed In Hot Soviet-Rumanian Clash; British Blast Italian War Plants; Hungarian Plane Also Shot Down, Budapest Says

BY the Associated Press. BUDAPEST, Aug. 27.—Rumanian armed forces clashed today with Soviet Russian and Hungarian air forces and with Russian troops as Southeastern Europe's tension mounted. A Rumanian fighter plane shot down a Hungarian bomber over Hungarian soil this morning, the Foreign Office announced. At the same time reports reached Budapest diplomats of a bloody skirmish on the Russian-Rumanian frontier Sunday morning with the loss of hundreds of troops on both sides. At least two Rumanian planes were shot down, the report said. The fighting, which the dispatches said occurred just north of Dorohoi, in Northern Moldavia, was reported to have started late Sunday and lasted several hours. It was resumed yesterday. A foreign military attaché at Bucharest who wrote the dispatches estimated that more than 800 Rumanian soldiers were slain. Just two months ago Rumania bowed to a Russian ultimatum, agreeing to cede to the Soviet Union Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina. As the Russians marched in early in July to take over their gains there were clashes between the retiring Rumanians and Soviet troops. Dorohoi is close to the new border formed by the Bessarabia and Bucovina cessions. The fighting was said to have occurred when Soviet troops crossed the border into Rumania. They were understood to have penetrated deeply before being forced back. The clash was said to have involved Rumanian troops. Four Russian warplanes which

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Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), August 27, 1940 — front page Enlarge →

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Second Vienna Award

Award

On 1 July 1940, Romania repudiated the Anglo-French guarantee of 13 April 1939, which had become worthless following the fall of France. Germany used Romania's new desperation to force a revision of the territorial settlement produced by the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 in favour of Germany's old allies: Hungary and Bulgaria.

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Carol II of Romania

Road to abdication

The acceptance of the Second Vienna Award completely discredited Carol with his people, and in early September 1940 enormous demonstrations broke out all over Romania demanding that Carol abdicate. On 1 September 1940, Sima gave a speech calling upon Carol to abdicate, and the Iron Guard began to organize demonstrations all over Romania to press for his abdication.

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National Legionary State

King Carol II was forced to abdicate on 6 September 1940, and was replaced by his 19-year-old son, King Michael I. The first act of the new king was to grant General Ion Antonescu unlimited power as Conducător (leader) of Romania. The Legionary Movement/Iron Guard became the 'only movement recognized in the new state', making Romania a totalitarian country.

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