Details

Subject(s)

• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Foreign relations [Browse]
• Politics and government [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—1906-1966—Sources [Browse]
• Romania—Politics and government [Browse]
• Romania [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• General Correspondence from 1906-1966 (Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political Departments) ; FO371-182699. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-182699

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1961-1966: Module 2
• History Commons

Summary note

A file of correspondence, reports, and legal material concerning political developments in Romania. The documents discuss the Romanian government's introduction of a decree issuing the Romanian public with identity cards, which the British Embassy in Bucharest notes will enable the Romanian police to track a person's whereabouts at all times. The documents also cover the staging of national elections in Romania, at which the Romanian regime won 99.85% of the votes cast, on a turnout of 99.96% -- and the view of James Dalton Murray, the British Ambassador to Romania, that whilst this election was a "parody of democracy", the present regime "enjoys a greater measure of support among the population at large than it did four years ago". The documents also cover the death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, the Romanian leader -- and the promotion of Nicolae Ceaușescu to become the new leader of Romania.

Notes

• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module II.
• File date: 1965.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1995.

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