Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Porter, and Acting Messenger Wilton. Week after week, they take a number of red morocco boxes filled with diplomatic documents to Paris, where they board the Orient Express to Istanbul and Cairo. On the out trip they drop off boxes at Lausanne (for Geneva), Milan (for Rome), Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Athens, pick up others at the same points on their way home. No King's Messenger is necessary for Washington since Britain's diplomatic documents are brought to Manhattan by the pursers of British liners, there handed to the British consulate...
...either in labor battalions on the Nazi model or as combatant additions to the present army, which has already been increased from 30,000 to 38,000 men by short-term enlistments. Most of Europe had been expecting this, received the news calmly. Not so the Little Entente. In Bucharest, Prague, Belgrade, statesmen sputtered melodramatically that if Hungary followed Austria's lead, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia would mobilize. For the record all three sent notes of pained protest to little Austria, reserving the right at a later date "to make public the measures" they might take to protect their...
...Horrible Hohenzollern," buck-toothed King Carol II of Rumania, put his Jewish Mistress Magda Lupescu aboard his Royal Train at Bucharest and rattled off to Paris where Magda alighted and remained. His Majesty was brought to Dover on the British destroyer Montrose, received a 21-gun salute from Dover Cas tle, was met in London by the heir to the Throne, the Duke of York, and took up residence in the house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King...
...need of what every doubtful candidate requires, a good & loving wife. Notoriously he has the opposite, and last week ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece proceeded deliberately to embarrass her Gorgeous Georgios as much as she could by causing the following to be inserted among ordinary court notices at Bucharest, where her buck-toothed Brother Carol is King of Rumania...
...Majesty King George of Greece, now residing in the Grand Hotel, London, is summoned to Bucharest to answer proceedings for divorce on the grounds of unfaithfulness and desertion...