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...Eastern Europe unusual quiet is a sure sign of political activity. Early last week the streets of Bucharest were still as a Puritan Sabbath. Shop fronts were steel-shuttered, cafes were deserted save for an occasional worried waiter, moodily wiping the empty table tops. Foreign correspondents, smelling trouble, gravitated toward the Bucharest telegraph office. It was closed, and not going to open. As the day advanced, groups of soldiers in steel helmets and khaki appeared on the street corners, leaning against lamp posts, smoking cigarets when their officers were not looking...
...weeks ago, active Prime Minister Maniu struck a vital blow at the remaining Bratianu power by decentralizing local administrations, cutting the influence of the Central Bucharest ministries, still Bratianu appointees, in rural Rumania...
What did that mean-Bessarabia? Oracle Litvinov did not explain. Perhaps he was alluding to the several hundred pinpricks and quarrels which have estranged Bucharest and Moscow. But whatever he meant, 'his words provoked no slightest frown or trace of annoyance on the smiling face of Carol A. Davila...
...stabilization loan of $105,000,000 will be floated as a result of legislation passed, last week in Bucharest, by the Rumanian Chamber of Deputies. Behind this transaction stand the central banks of 14 nations.* Their joint representative in Rumania will be a Frenchman, suave Charles Rist. Last week M. Rist resigned as a Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, hopped a train for Bucharest. There he will assist the new Peasant Government of Rumania (TIME, Nov. 19) to place the leu on an absolute gold basis at its present rate of exchange, 167.18 lei to the dollar...
During the past several weeks Prince Barbu Stirby's chauffeur has been cashing at the Bank Generale, in Bucharest, large checks drawn against the Royal Exchequer, in virtue of His Highness' former authority as Keeper of the Privy Purse. Officials of the Bank Generale all know that the Prince has ceased to hold that office. Yet the chief teller paid the checks on sight, paid...