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...From. Bucharest, from Budapest, from Paris-to which all grapevines lead-came reports last week of marching...
Ever since the rape of Poland Rumania has been in a resigned state of war jitters and martial law. The railroads have been jammed to bursting with soldiers on the move night & day. German and British agents campaign furiously from headquarters on different floors but under the same Bucharest roof (Athénèe Palace Hotel). While Bucharest enjoys a superficial building boom topped off by a fancy new palace, King Carol has taken his country's whole life into his own hands in a desperate effort to save his Kingdom...
...Balkans. All last week the Rumanian Ministry of Propaganda in Bucharest issued official denials to nosy correspond ents. It swore that King Carol II was not out of town. Actually, His Majesty speeded down the Chaussée Kisseleff from the Palace to the Royal Railway Station one morning along a route on which one newsman estimated there were 176 picked secret policemen, one every eight yards. The police were told that the King was going hunting with His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mihai on the royal estate near Timisoara...
...hopeful that you will allow me to correct an impression which you unwittingly left by the reference in your issue of Nov. 13 to King Ferdinand of Rumania as a "weakling." During the time I was American Minister in Bucharest (1925-28) I came to know the King personally and I had many opportunities to see the nature of his work...
Belgrade was as sensitive as Bucharest to the Allied-German string-pulling in her part of Europe. Yugoslavia's most immediate problem was copper. The Yugoslav copper mines, largest of Europe, are operated by French and British companies which no longer sell to Germany. Moreover, a French trade delegation is scheduled to arrive soon in Belgrade with the explicit purpose of buying up all this copper output. The special Yugoslav dilemma is whether to expropriate the mines and let the output go to Germany, in which case the country may risk an Allied blockade, or whether...