Word: carol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palace at Bucharest, King Carol of Rumania, hearing that the weather had turned foul, anxiously wirelessed Commander Gika Dimutriscu of his destroyer Regina Maria (named after his mother, Queen Marie). Aboard the Regina Maria was his son, Crown Prince Mihai, bound for Athens and the wedding of Crown Prince Paul of Greece (see p. 26), where his mother, divorced Queen Helen, was waiting...
...Rumanian port of Constantsa. For hours special trains had been standing with steam up at Constantsa and two Bulgarian ports at which the Crown Prince might conceivably land. As Mihai stepped ashore, deathly pale from seasickness, he ordered food, drink and warm clothing for the crew, then boarded King Carol's own special train, started out for Athens. At Bucharest he stopped to tell King Carol, "Of course I was badly scared...
Seldom in any country does a party receiving less than 10% of the votes cast in an election have its leader proclaimed Prime Minister. Exactly that happened last week in Rumania. Week after election (TIME, Jan. 3), King Carol, hurrying down to Bucharest from his country seat near Sinaia, summoned a ELungarian-born poet-politician and instructed him to form a ministry...
...badly beaten at the polls was King Carol's subservient Premier George Tatarescu that, even though-Rumanian law allows any Government that fills 40% of the seats in the lower chamber 75% of its voting power, he could not muster a majority. Last fortnight's elections showed that the three strongest parties in Rumania are: the National Liberal Party of beaten Tatarescu, the National Peasant Party of wild-eyed Julius Maniu, the Nazi-sup-ported Iron Guard of Zelea Codreanu. All three were objectionable last week: the National Liberal Party because they were damned as pro-French...
...King Carol skipped all these, therefore, to pick as Premier white-haired, sleepy-eyed Octavian Goga of the little National Christian Party. As a poet Octavian Goga's reputation rests largely on a series of translations of Hungarian epics. As a politician he won the awed admiration of Balkans by conducting the most slickly corrupt elections ever seen as Minister of the Interior in 1926. But Goga exactly suited King Carol because, although violently antiSemitic, he is a good friend of Jewess Lupescu; although a Fascist, a bitter enemy of Iron Guardsman Codreanu. In jig time last week...