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Crown Prince Carol of Rumania had just turned 30 when he met her in 1924. According to one version, the meeting took place at a ball in Bucharest's officers' club. According to another, he saw her at the opera, and winked at her. According to a third, she waited for his car to pass on a dark road near Bucharest, her clothes disheveled as though she had been in an accident, and permitted herself to be rescued. At any rate, Carol Hohenzollern fell deeply in love with Elena Lupescu; she became his mistress, and everyone who read...
Magda shared Carol's first five-year exile (1925 to 1930). She shared his power when he returned to Rumania in 1930 and was crowned. She moved into a villa on Bucharest's Alea Elisa Filipescu, where she raised white turkeys. She was violently hated in the country (manifestoes attacked "this red-haired witch who exercises such an occult influence over our King"). When Edward VIII abdicated for Wally Simpson's sake, Carol thought it prudent to suppress the news in Rumania for a while-lest his subjects get ideas. But he refused to give Magda...
...Bucharest, demonstrators surged about the building where the Rumanian Red Cross Society was holding its annual convention. Shouting "Adjournment!" (the demonstrators complained that leftists' applications for Red Cross membership were always turned down), the crowd demanded that the meeting be transferred to a hall down the street, already carefully packed with "non-members." In the scuffle, several good, grey ladies suffered battered heads and shins. The convention suspended its meeting...
...Battle of the Cities. One way to tell how the battle is going is to list the cities the Communists have taken over through their victories in municipal elections. Such cities as Sofia and Bucharest and Belgrade have always seemed to be on the other side of the moon. But the Red Flag flies also over cities that hold the West's most poignant memories: Virgil's Mantua, Ambrose's Milan, Ferrara. the city of Lucrezia Borgia- a woman the Communists would have appreciated: learned and turbulent Bologna, Dante's soft symmetrical Florence; Dandolo...
Moonshine. Accounts of most foreign newsmen in Bucharest agreed with Bourgin's testimony. But not all. The Government hustled New York Daily Worker Correspondent John Pittman to a radio microphone to give his view. Gushed Pittman: "Millions of American Negroes and peasants would be glad to get a chance to go to the polls and have police and soldiers protect them." At a post-election press conference, U.S. and British newsmen questioned Premier Groza mercilessly about the excesses they had witnessed. When a Pravda correspondent finally got a chance, he asked the Premier a question that was a perfect...