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Seldom in any country does a party receiving less than 10% of the votes cast in an election have its leader proclaimed Prime Minister. Exactly that happened last week in Rumania. Week after election (TIME, Jan. 3), King Carol, hurrying down to Bucharest from his country seat near Sinaia, summoned a ELungarian-born poet-politician and instructed him to form a ministry...
...said to shake down Mme Lupescu for such large sums-by threatening to assassinate her-that she has ironically been called their biggest backer) might team up in coalition with His Majesty's Government. In any case Rumanian election returns seemed to prove that the recent visit to Bucharest of French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos has done nothing to weaken German Nazi influence in the Kingdom of Carol von Hohenzollern, nothing to strengthen Democracy in the Balkans...
After a visit to quaint old Cracow, M. Delbos said good-by to Polish hospitality and hurried on to Rumania. In Bucharest, he was feted by hard-boiled King Carol and harder-boiled Premier George Tatarescu, who took time out from their labors in preparing to strong...
...Delbos was insured a welcome because he came to offer French capital to build a Rumanian factory which will turn out war tanks, and to arrange that Rumanian crude oil and gasoline will be accepted by Paris in payment for fine new artillery, additional tanks to be supplied to Bucharest. Premier Tatarescu was so pleased that he joined M. Delbos in a fervent pledge that "our two countries will remain faithful to the League of Nations and its principles." At the same time, however M. Delbos was warned that Rumania will uphold her end of the bargain only so long...
...From Bucharest, Tourist Delbos sped to Belgrade to be entertained by Yugoslav Premier Milan Stoyadinovich who had spent the earlier part of the week in Rome being feted by Dictator, King and Pope, and arranging to buy Italian war planes for Yugoslavia. While M. Delbos shook hands with Premier Stoyadinovich who is up to his neck in Fascism, the Roman press jeered "Delbos is wasting his time!" Under their late, assassinated King Alexander I (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), the Yugoslavian people were taught, however, to think of France as their friend and Italy as their enemy...