Word: carol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British recently have sent confidential emissaries to King Carol and next month His Majesty will make a State visit to King George. Last week Rumania and Yugoslavia were exerting pressure on their neighbor Hungary to keep her from grabbing such a great slice of Slovakia & Ruthenia as would pinch off the whole eastern end of Czechoslovakia. This would give Hungary and Poland a common frontier, would mean that Rumania and Czechoslovakia would no longer be adjoining States...
...Galatz, Rumania, from Warsaw suddenly traveled Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck seeking audience with King Carol to urge Hungary's claims. He was received coldly. Soon afterward His Majesty and Premier Patriarch Miron Cristea let the Rumanian censorship pass news that the Pole "achieved nothing that he had sought...
Commissar Litvinoff knew without asking that anti-Communist Poland would fight before allowing Soviet troops to pass over its territory to Czechoslovakia. Since German absorption of Austria, however, Dictator King Carol of Rumania has become friendlier to the Soviet Union, less friendly to Germany. Last week, in Geneva, while the League of Nations Council held a speedy six-minute meeting in which eight non-controversial reports were adopted prior to the convening this week of the League Assembly, Rumanian and Soviet League delegations allowed the fact to leak out that Commissar Litvinoff and Rumanian Foreign Minister Petrescu-Comnen were discussing...
...Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials) was published in the June QST, American Radio Relay League's official publication, because Archduke Anton is OE3AH...
...hotel that will accept the committee is the Bonnie Bell, crawling with roaches and lechers. In the night, dark sedans run round & round the hotel. May Diehl, the committee's case worker, whimpers atop a chair. In another room the teacher, Tom Pettee, strokes the pretty hair of Carol Gillman, an impetuous divorcee. The others discuss tactics. A gang of local "antis" come in, carry out the committee's two leaders, take them to a dark swamp, thrash them unconscious. Then they turn lights and police on their victims. "I swear!" they say. "They have been beating each...