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...scandal that never withers is Rumania's hardy perennial that munitions are sold in Bucharest on a strict basis of bribe-as-you-go. Disclosures of the week concerned the deal with Skoda, Czechoslovakia's Munitions Trust, which backfired when General Zika Popescu of the Royal Rumanian Army put a bullet through his brain (TIME, April 10, 1933). Just what had been at stake General Cihofhi of the Royal Ordnance Service volubly revealed to a Parliamentary committee last week...
...pointedly recalled Wilhelm II's high-handed dispatch of the warship Panther to Agadir in 1911 as a threat to France. The Italian demonstration at Durazzo apparently was II Duce's answer to M. Barthou who had just told a madly cheering Rumanian Chamber of Deputies in Bucharest that under the post-War treaties "Peace is restored to you and your frontiers! They will remain yours. You should know that if a square centimetre of your territory is touched France will be with...
...though doing homage to the imperial dead, French correspondents in Bucharest last week hovered around a greying count whom they called "The last Ambassador of the Tsar...
...munitions scandal shook Rumania. Army officers were charged with having accepted bribes to throw arms contracts to the great Czecho-slovak firm of Skoda. One of them committed suicide, others went to jail and the Skoda contracts were canceled. Not trusting any of his salesmen, Douglas Vickers was in Bucharest last week angling for this rich Rumanian prize. At week's end his London friends had the impression that the Rumanian contracts were safely in his pocket...
...Dictator the plans called for, according to the rumors and alarms that last week swept Rumania, was burly, granite-jawed Col. Pricup, Carol's old friend and the man who arranged his flying trip from Paris to Bucharest and the throne in 1930. His henchmen were Rumania's Fascist, Jew-hating Iron Guard. Forty of them had been on trial for the murder of Premier Ion G. Duca last December, had been acquitted. Col. Pricup noted that fact with interest. Carol had not rewarded him nearly enough since 1930. Lupescu intrigued against him. Two months ago he joined...