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...Hitler, Emperor Hirohito, Mussolini, Smigly-Rydz of Poland and Salazar of Portugal all want the Spanish war to end in Red defeat, and they were probably right, but in attending the Iron Guard funeral last week they had momentarily forgotten Mme. Lupescu-a dangerous thing to do in Bucharest...
...Premier George Tatarescu hastily offered His Majesty their resignations and burned up wires to Berlin and Rome demanding the recall of German Minister Dr. Wilhelm Fabricius and Italian Minister Ugo Sola. The Cabinet sent "warnings" to the Polish, Portuguese and Japanese legations against repeating the offense of attending in Bucharest an anti-Jewish funeral...
...days Premier Tatarescu, his resignation not yet accepted by irresolute King Carol, strutted bravely at Bucharest, an amazing Balkan bantam who had tut-tutted Der Führer and Il Duce. Next came crash!-and CRASH!-the replies of Berlin and Rome. The angry Dictators in almost identical telegrams slapped King Carol in the face by telling the Royal Rumanian Government officially that the envoys of Germany and Italy had attended in their private capacity "the funeral of the two heroes" and that no ground for asking their recall existed. Friends of Mme Lupescu, "Smartest Woman in the Balkans," were...
...Next objectives toward establishing intercommunion among all the Catholic churches which reject the Pope's authority and believe broadly in the same dogmas were the other Orthodox Churches of Europe and Asia Minor. Rumania, with 11,000,000 Orthodox, has the largest and most influential church. To Bucharest two summers ago were invited a party of Anglican bishops and theologians, to thresh out theological problems with the Rumanians. After agreeing that Anglican orders are valid, the Rumanian Orthodox requested the Church of England formally to declare its desire for intercommunion...
...Florence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy called upon Crown Prince Mihai of Rumania who had just had his royal appendix out. Mihai, 15, had been stricken while visiting his mother Princess (once Queen) Helen. His father King Carol kept in touch by telephone from Bucharest where His Majesty's brother Prince Nicholas had come down with scarlet fever. At "Barley Thorpe," Oakham, Rutland-shire, England the sporting and highly self-appreciative Earl of Lonsdale celebrated his 80th birthday by describing how in 1879 he "most certainly" outboxed the late, great Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan. Famed for his loud...