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Next the Countess Szembeck, wife of the Polish Minister at Bucharest, was forced to ruin her lace evening gown by reclining in some particularly squelchy mud. "Outrageous!" she stormed, sobbed...
...Bucharest last week the editors of Lupta and Taranismul (antiRoyalist newsorgans) were at such a zero hour. Next day there would go into effect a law providing jail sentences for printing "any derogatory reference or report concerning the Royal Family." What should be the editors' last unmuzzled words...
Three years ago, after Prince Nicholas and Queen Marie returned 'from the U. S., H.R.H. began to dash about Bucharest with extreme speed and recklessness. In Rumania most people with automobiles are rich, and most rich people will not complain if their cars are dented or partially smashed by royalty. Indeed there is some swank in saying: "You see that dent? That's where Prince Nicholas sideswiped...
...last H.R.H. plumped full into a taxi and the driver started to argue. Next day all Bucharest knew that Royalty had knocked the plebian down, kicked him below the belt and had then departed, leaving others to carry the driver to a hospital. So disturbing to Rumania's politics was this scandal that the Government provided Prince Nicholas with a special horn, at the sound of which all other motorists must now give way, as to a fire engine.* Since then H.R.H. has had no more motoring accidents. But the scandal has not subsided, and last week Lupta...
Four days later Prince Nicholas went motoring again but this time the law was in effect. Lupta and Taranismul printed not a word. Careening down Bucharest's Buzetis Street he caught the wife of one Major Georgescu neatly on his mudguard, tumbled her in the gutter. In rage. Major Georgescu smashed the car's window with his riding crop, then suddenly recognizing the Prince, stopped, saluted. Flushed with anger, Prince Nicholas ordered the Major to three weeks' house arrest. Major Georgescu's commanding officer, General Vavrescu. further ordered him to apologize to Prince Nicholas in person...