Word: caroll
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jews rejoiced last week as King Carol II cracked down with all his royal might on the anti-Semitic Iron Guard. In particular His Majesty's titian-haired Jewish Pompadour, Mme Magda Lupescu, who had to flee Rumania when anti-Semitism recently burst out, was highly delighted. She was expected soon to return to Bucharest. Meanwhile the King's forces worked day & night last week, arresting anti-Semites and piling them into Rumanian jails. They were accused of being "anti-Rumanian," and Carol II let it be known that the probable form of Government in Rumania...
...Bucharest last week the seven-week-old emergency Cabinet, organized by bosky-bearded Patriarch Miron Cristea when King Carol made himself Dictator (TIME, Feb. 21), was quietly reshuffled. The galaxy of six former Premiers, who as his Ministers without Portfolio lent their prestige to Dictator Carol in the crisis, dropped out of the Cabinet last week, were replaced by a line-up of lacklustre politicians and yes-men, of whom Rumania has many. As Stooge No. 1 the 69-year-old Patriarch was again sworn in as Premier...
...significant change was the replacement of mildly pro-Nazi National Liberal Leader George Tatarescu as Foreign Minister by ardently pro-Nazi Nicolas Petrescu-Comnen. King Carol has called off his spring State visit to Britain's King George, is now planning one to Adolf Hitler in Berlin, where M. Petrescu-Comnen was Rumanian Minister from 1932 until his appointment as Under-Secretary of State a few weeks...
...Heinrich (born Chaim) Neumann, greatest ear & throat specialist in Europe. This merry Orthodox Jew, who keeps a kosher home and prays each morning in phylacteries and sacred shawl, is the doctor & friend of England's George VI and Duke of Windsor, Spain's Alphonso, Rumania's Carol, Greece's George, Austria's late Emperor Charles. Two years ago Germany's Hitler, fearing cancer of the throat, asked Dr. Neumann to operate. The specialist refused, on the ground that if the operation failed, he would be blamed, not as a surgeon...
Triumphantly Interior Minister Armand Calinescu announced "By a majority of 99.89% the people of Rumania have overwhelmingly approved the personal dictatorship of King Carol...