Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intentions broke out like a rash. Diplomats representing all the Great Powers called to protest a decree not yet issued. In the thick of the fog labored large, astute, easy-mannered U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson. After having had to deal with Rumanians as U. S. Minister at Bucharest, Mr. Culbertson rather likes Chileans. His protests last week were firm, not angry. He had done his best when the Davila Government finally handed him their decree, reading significantly in part...
...Bucharest red-haired Magda Lupescu, mistress of King Carol, has been openly appearing at social gatherings of late, openly flaunting the fact that she has ousted Queen Helen. Fortunately Rumania has an able diplomat and statesman, M. Nicholas Titulescu, high in the graces of the Great Powers. He, Rumanian Minister to Great Britain, was in Switzerland last week as President of the Assembly of the League of Nations and Chief Rumanian Delegate to the Geneva Conference...
Picking up a telephone King Carol got M. Titulescu at Montreux, commanded him to return to Bucharest. A year ago the King and his old tutor intrigued among Rumanian politicians with the result that M. Titulescu was obliged to announce: "I find it impossible to form a Cabinet...
...reaching Bucharest, M. Titulescu hurried to lunch with King Carol. Suddenly there were screams as of a man in mortal terror. Rushing to the window His Majesty & Guest saw a three-story scaffolding set up against the Royal Palace collapse, saw a workman mad with terror plunge to death...
Next day, after dickering among Bucharest politicians, M. Titulescu was again obliged to announce: "I find it impossible to form a Cabinet." Promptly King Carol dissolved the Rumanian Parliament, ordered new elections, entrusted the Government ad interim to former Premier (1919) Alexander Vaida-Voevod...