Word: carolers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work done last week by Rumania's new King Carol...
...instructed the British mint, makers of Rumanian money, to stop work on the "King Mihai" series of which several million coins have been struck. The new Rumanian law of annulment (TIME, June 16) states that Carol's son Mihai was never King. As soon as possible busy Britains will start stamping "King Carol II" coins, printing "King Carol" postage stamps...
...private telephone connecting the palace of Prince Babu Stirbey with the apartments of Dowager Queen Marie (where Carol, before he left Rumania four-and-a-half years ago, once surprised the Prince and boxed his ears) was ripped out. Search of the Stirbey palace last week revealed an archive of state secrets and codes sufficient to hang at least two persons for High Treason. But King Carol II wisely allowed his mother's one-time "court favorite" to leave Rumania for "voluntary exile...
...generals hostile to King Carol were placed on the retired list, two who assisted his return (Generals Averescu and Presan) were gazetted field marshals. The King's brother Prince Nicholas, who telegraphed the signal for his return was created "Chief Inspector of the Army and Navy." Said Carol of Nicholas last week: "He is more than a brother! ... He hourly does me splendid service." Nicholas told reporters that during his brother's exile they used an affectionate telegraphic code in which "Mary" stood for Carol. Without translating it Nicholas quoted one code message: "TELL TITKUS KISS FROM SOPHIE...
...Nicolae Iorga (once tutor to the King), or any other arch-Carolist. In effect the new Maniu cabinet is the same as his old one of fortnight ago, and his peasant party remains supreme in Rumanian politics. Impotent Vintila Bratianu, liberal leader and onetime Prime Minister, bitterest foe of Carol, was credited last week with shouting (at his Carolist nephew George Bratianu): "I'll kill Carol myself?with anything?with a kitchen knife...