Word: bucharest
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...Bucharest last week, the lying in state of Her late Majesty was in the ornate Byzantine Hall of her Cotroceni Palace, the same hall in which, when giving audience to foreigners she was wont to exclaim as Queen, "I designed this hall. You have admired it, yes. Ah, but you should have seen it when my husband, King Ferdinand, was laid out there at the far end in Death-it was beautiful!" The ladies of the Court, by express command of the Dowager Queen, mourned her not in black but in a color she had described as violet Cardinal. While...
Since Her late Majesty was a second cousin of King-Emperor George VI, to the funeral came the Duke and Duchess of Kent. There was no question of the Queen's popularity, for Bucharest filled to overflowing with Rumanians from all over the country, many arriving from great distances. As Marie of Rumania passed to her last resting place, devout thousands groveled in prayer, made the sign of the cross...
...cabin of her Vultee bomber flower-filled by proud Turks, Turkey's "Flying Amazon," 24-year-old Pilot-Major Sabiha Gökeen (adopted daughter of President Kamâl Atatürk hopped off on a good-will flight to Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest...
Last week, in Bucharest, this champion hater faced a treason charge before a military tribunal of King Carol's officers. Charged with plotting to kidnap His Majesty and set up a Fascist state with himself as Führer and Adolf Hitler as an ally, Leader Codreanu was found guilty, sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Balkan justice being what it is, Leader Codreanu was considered to have got off lightly. In the complex fabric of Balkan politics, however, the sentence did mean that King Carol was taking no nonsense from Nazis or Nazi friends...
Because the largest Bucharest hotel, Athenée Palace, has been the political headquarters of the National Peasant Party, it has now been ordered closed by Dictator Carol "for ten years." That the Orthodox Patriarch & Premier is little more than a stooge for His Majesty was evident when it was found that the King's men had arrested, among 1,500 suspects of various sorts, 200 Orthodox priests...