George Macovescu (ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe makoˈvesku; 1913–2002) was a Romania

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n writer and communist politician who served as the General Secretary of Ministry of Information of Romania and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania.

Life and political career

In the 1930s George Macovescu wrote articles for several left-wing

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 newspapers, such as Adevărul

Adevarul

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and Dimineaţa. In 1936 he joined the then illegal Communist Party of Romania, and after the World War II

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 started, he supported the anti-Nazi forces in German

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-aligned Romania. Around this time he also married a Jewish wife, Teri (Tereza).
After the war, Macovescu was the General Secretary of the Ministry of Information of Romania

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 in 1945-1947. He was then appointed Ambassador of Romania to the United Kingdom

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 and served there from 1947 until 1949. After he came back to Bucharest

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, Macovescu became the magistrate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania from 1949 through 1952. He then worked as the Chief Magistrate of the Romanian cinematography

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 from 1955 until 1959. In 1959-1961, he was the Ambassador of Romania to the United States

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 and a member of the Romanian delegation to the United Nations

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. In 1961, upon his return to Romania, he was appointed the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and in 1967 he became the First Deputy Minister subsequently becoming the Minister of Foreign Affairs on October 18, 1972. As the deputy minister and later minister, he took part in establishing better relations with Israel

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 and tried to increase mediating role of Romania in Israeli-Egypt

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ian conflict. Macovescu served as Minister until 1978.

Macovescu also headed the Writers' Union of Romania

Writers' Union of Romania

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 from 1978 until 1982. From 1949 until 1981, he also taught at Department of Romanian Language and Literature of Bucharest University.