Word: carolers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a hurricane to get Carol Hohen zollern and Magda Lupescu out of Spain. Since the ex-King and his plump Pompa dour fled from Rumania amid a hail of brickbats and the spat of lead against their armored train (TIME. Nov. 25), the Spanish Government has given them asylum but refused to let them push on to Portugal. "I am desperate!" chain-smoking Carol told a London Daily Express reporter. "If I do not get a favorable reply to my application to leave Spain tomorrow, I will go on a hunger strike!" Carol and Magda continued to eat heartily...
Madame Lupescu had sent on ahead to Portugal three trunks full of her furs and most of the enormous treasure with which she and Carol fled Rumania. Last week she simply sent her servants out of the Andalusia Palace, gathered up a purse containing her jewelry, and with Carol at the wheel stepped into his Mercedes "for a drive." They were soon bowling along in the suburbs of Seville, trailed as usual by a police car. Then Carol tramped full down on the accelerator. Over the Andalusian and Estremaduran plains they tore madly for 100 miles. The police were left...
Waiting on the Portuguese side of the frontier for Carol and Magda was the ex-King's Portuguese business agent, Augusto Lopez Joly. In Lisbon waited the foppish, oily, hand-kissing familiar of Madame Lupescu, M. Ernest Urdarianu who served Carol in Bucharest as Grand Chamberlain. Out of rebuilding Bucharest the King, Lupescu and Urdarianu reputedly cleaned up a king's ransom, and in Bucha rest there is some demand that at least Lupescu and Urdarianu be hanged...
Last week, also, Nazi scouting planes were daily soaring over Greece. It was rumored that Germany had invited Greece to accept an "honorable" peace rather than endure Nazi invasion, that the bearer of the invitation had been handsome Queen Mother Helen, divorced wife of ex-King Carol of Rumania, mother of young King Mihai and sister of Greece's King George. Since Carol left Rumania she has been doing what ruling is left for the royal family to do, conceivably would have been willing to do her Nazi regents a favor. But in whatever fashion the peace overture might...
...situation in hand. Foreign diplomats contributed to the relief fund. Italian Ambassador Francesco Lequio gave 10,000 pesetas in the name of Benito Mussolini, "always a friend of Spain." U. S. Ambassador Alexander W. Weddell's wife gave 10,000 pesetas, Rumania's onetime King Carol 3,000, German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer a "generous contribution." British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare announced that two ships laden with grain for Britain would be diverted to Santander. Everybody wanted to do something neighborly for politically strategic Spain...