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...Bucharest last week...
...International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. pointedly ignored furious charges by the Rumanian General Staff last week that the small "skyscraper" which I. T. & T is building in Bucharest "will make the capital of Rumania a target for enemy bombs...
...Premier Jorga said that a rich American had just offered to found an Institute of International Affairs at Bucharest. "His name is Mr. Chester D. Pugsley," said Professor Jorga, "and he lives in the city of Peekskill in the State of New York. I have been happy to accept on behalf of the Royal Government this magnificent offer." Diligently down a column of Who's Who, Lawyer-Banker Pugsley itemizes his 16 principal charitable bequests which foot up to a total $538.400, plus "40 oil portraits to institutions...
Died. Count Ottokar Czernin, 60, Wartime Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary; of heart disease; in Vienna. Minister in Bucharest at the start of the War, he later dictated the peace terms to defeated Rumania, aided in forcing the treaty of Brest-Litvosk on Bolshevik Russia. Foreseeing ultimate defeat and consequent disintegration of the Dual Monarchy, he strove for peace, was made a scapegoat for his pains...
General Condescu said that to save money it might be necessary to install Prince Nicholas and his new commoner bride in the chateau at Belleme where Mistress Lupescu used to live. She is now believed to be in Bucharest with the King, though her presence the Rumanian Government half-heartedly denies...