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Helen's Home. George II and George V, as every Rumanian knows, are firm friends. Last week the deposed King of Greece (still rated a king by the British Court) was in Bucharest with his sister Helen, the divorced Queen of Rumania. Gossip buzzed fiercely that George II was backed by George V. Allegedly the British King Emperor has sent a "sharp message" that unless scapegrace King Carol of Rumania adopts a different attitude toward the Queen who is no longer his wife, she, Queen Helen, will be invited to reside in England under the august protection...
...Marie, he gives fatherly advice to George Bratianu, and by King Carol he was recently made a Marshal of Rumania. To widowed Mme Vintila Bratianu, His Majesty wired condolence, praising the "energy and labor" of her husband. His funeral was almost regal. Three special trains conveyed the body to Bucharest. Relays of priests held a funeral service at each important town en route...
Died. Vintila Bratianu, 63, onetime (1926-28) Premier of Rumania, bitterest foe of King Carol, last diehard of the Liberal Party; of an apoplectic stroke; at his estate near Bucharest...
Recipients, numerous, were all Rumanians who had remained "loyal" to Carol after he abdicated as Crown Prince, abandoned his wife and baby son in Bucharest, went abroad with henna-haired Magda Lupescu...
Just now Rumania needs heavy additional State financing and in London talented M. Titulescu is supposed to have nearly completed arrangements for a thumping loan. Bucharest buzzed with rumors (possibly premature) that her Minister at London had also reached a new and distinctly more favorable understanding (described by enthusiasts as an "entente") with the British Foreign Office on questions of mutual interests. Crowned with all this adroitly puffed glory M. Titulescu, it was said, will return to Bucharest before very long, replace his "stalking horse," M. Mironescu, as Prime Minister...