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Last week, with the principal Rumanian harvests barely five weeks off, sealed bids were received at Bucharest from leading European locomotive works. Only one concern-a German syndicate-took seriously the Prime Minister's ultrashort time limit. They would supply him with 100 husky harvest-pullers-if Rumania would pay something like twice the normal price. All the other bidders seemed to assume that what Farm Reliever Maniu really wanted was a low price on 100 locomotives for delivery by Christmas or perhaps next Spring...
Rumanians do not yet know the half of Her Majesty Queen Marie's exuberant doings (TIME, Oct. 25, 1926, et seq.) and endorsings in the U. S. Rumanian censorship obliterates lèse-majesteé. Last week a mite of the spicy truth leaked out at Bucharest. Wrote intrepid Publicist Grigore Filipescu...
...sensation at Bucharest, last week, brought rash Publicist Filipescu to a filthy cell in the common jail. Awaiting trial for lèse-majesté he stoutly said: "I will not withdraw one word!" His defense, he added, would be that his article is not ''an attack on the Royal Family," as the Crown Prosecutor charges, but instead is a patriotic rebuke to the Rumanian statesman who allowed Her Majesty to go abroad and gallivant...
...public opinion could be gauged in Bucharest, last week, most Rumanians sympathized with Dowager Queen Marie, were indignant at the insinuation that U. S. citizens ever laughed at her, or are enjoying a last laugh...
Then came the attempted uprising. No one in the Maniu government, however, dared blame the Bratianu "Liberals" openly. Elected scapegoat was a little-known artillery colonel, one August Stojka. Though Bucharest newspapers dared print no comment on the uprising, its cause or effect, the following effusion was issued by Minister of the Interior Vaida-Voevod...