Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time & again a curt long distance call from the French Cabinet to the Rumanian Cabinet has blocked the dismissal of M. Titulescu as Rumanian Foreign Minister or forced his reinstatement. This, however, could go on only so long as Paris had loans and worthwhile favors to offer Bucharest, for the Rumanian people and their politicians, not to mention King Carol II, are frankly mercenary. Their last public love feast with France was at the time Rumania was visited with a splurge of lavish rewards by aged but scholarly and high-spirited French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. This twinkling-eyed oldster...
...always believed, were paid for from Berlin, and last week to Frenchmen it came as the conclusion of a logical sequence that Nicholas Titulescu was finally dropped as Foreign Minister of Rumania as he lay sick on the French Riviera. Sick too was the erstwhile predominance of Paris at Bucharest and in the Rumanian capital a new star had shot up with a Nazi sizzle, Dr. Octavian Goga...
...long ago as 1934 M. Goga was said in Bucharest to have the backing of Benito Mussolini and informed rumor now equips hirr also with the backing of Adolf Hitler. He stands for a Rumania lukewarm to France and ardently Fascist. Few weeks ago he was received by Der Führer, hurried from Germany to the Royal Palace in Bucharest with a "personal message" from Herr Hitler to Carol of Hohenzollern. Few days afterward Rumanian Premier George Tatarescu "reconstructed"' his Cabinet to leave out Titulescu. No European statesman doubted last week that this marked a great shift...
...retain complete confidence in the statesmanship of France, and I intend to retain cultural relations with Rus-sia." It would surprise no Rumanian if King Carol should break off with Joseph Stalin the diplomatic relations established between Russia and Rumania by M. Titulescu. With Nazi influence mounting at Bucharest the Jewish mistress of the King, red-haired Magda Lupescu, found her position last week greatly altered for the worse. His Majesty still looks to her for a certain amount of mothering when he is tired or nervous, but King Carol's infatuation has ended...
...British Lord Stanley that the Briand-Kellogg-Pact-Renouncing-War-As-an Instrument-of-National-Policy "terminated belligerent rights." In the middle of a heated row tall Dr. Titulescu stalked in, denounced the British for "blowing now hot now cold" and rushed off to catch the next train for Bucharest "to calm Rumanian opinion...