An Episode of the Staff Policy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Leadership of Ana Pauker: Appointment of the Head of Mission to Rome in 1949 Cover Image

Un episod din politica de cadre a Ministerului Afacerilor Externe sub conducerea Anei Pauker: numirea şefului de misiune la Roma în 1949
An Episode of the Staff Policy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Leadership of Ana Pauker: Appointment of the Head of Mission to Rome in 1949

Author(s): Alexandru Ioan Heltianu
Subject(s): History
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Romania; diplomacy; Italy; communist power; Anna Pauker

Summary/Abstract: This study is focused on a topic that is less present in the Romanian historiography in recent years, more specifically the history of diplomacy under the communist regime. On the basis of a documentation made in the archives of the Foreign Ministry in Rome, here, is tackled the appointment of Mihail Dragomirescu in 1949 as the Romanian Chief of Mission in Italy. The diplomatic correspondence points out the poor professional quality that the Romanian diplomat had, his contribution to the strengthening of the communist power in Romania and also the way in which Anna Pauker, the Foreign Affair minister in Romania, is rewarding employees without any diplomatic accomplishments but with lots of failures by appointing them in key positions.

  • Issue Year: LIV/2015
  • Issue No: 54
  • Page Range: 329-336
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian
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