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...abdicated onetime Crown Prince Carol of Rumania (father of Baby King Michael) continued to reside in his country villa near Dinard, France, last week. To a correspondent, who asked if the death of Jon Bratiano, foe to Carol, would cause him to return at once to Bucharest, the abdicated prince replied: "You see, I am not preparing to leave for Bucharest. I must await developments in the situation in my country...
...Bucharest Premier Vintila Bratiano said: "There is no chance of Carol returning. The death of my lamented brother spelled the end of the Carolist agitation...
Despite the "perfect calm" prevailing in Rumania, Premier Vintila Bratiano found it necessary to hold one more conference with party leaders on the very train which carried his brother's coffin out to the Bratiano estate at Florica for burial. Arrived there, the harassed politicians assumed somber mourning faces, then followed the coffin and the royal family through immense crowds of somberly clad peasants, some of whom sprinkled holy water on the slowly passing bier...
...grave, Mme. Jon Bratiano* swayed and seemed nigh to fainting. She was embraced and steadied by the Dowager Queen Marie, who, turning toward the coffin as it was lowered into the earth, apostrophized thus: "Great and good friend of my youth and of my riper years! As long as there is still breath in me, for all that I am worth I shall try with God's help to carry on and uphold King Ferdinand's and your great work. Amen...
...funeral train returned to Bucharest Premier Vintila Bratiano held an extraordinary session of his cabinet in one of the cars, and in another the Dowager Queen Marie addressed correspondents: "Jon Bratiano was a leader, a master, a man, whose unswerving friendship bound us together through long years of hard and difficult labor. We believed in each other, and my absolute loyalty to his ideals made us collaborators who kept the faith. I was strong enough to rejoice over his strength. . . . He now belongs to the ages. . . . We can but bow our heads...