While Romania was frantically imploring the West for assistance, the U.S. [[Office of War Information]] (OWI) praised the Soviet Unions's "new democracy" and the "innocent nature of Communism." <ref>Reuben M. Markham, ''Rumania Uner the Soviet Yoke'' (Boston: Meader, 1949), p. | While Romania was frantically imploring the West for assistance, the U.S. [[Office of War Information]] (OWI) praised the Soviet Unions's "new democracy" and the "innocent nature of Communism." <ref>Reuben M. Markham, ''Rumania Uner the Soviet Yoke'' (Boston: Meader, 1949), p. |