Word: carolled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bucharest the whole front page of the anti-semitic Universul was devoted to an article in which Minister of Interior David Popescu certified with details that the ex-King is an "immoral, epileptic, degenerate exploiter and usurper." M. Popescu summed up: "Future generations of Rumanians will remember Carol as the greatest misfortune his people ever suffered. Today ended part of the purgatory which our people have endured for ten years...
...SoldOut." The people of Rumania have been bled white with taxes in the past few years to build up an Army, an Air Force and the nearest thing in the Balkans to a Maginot Line - the Carol Line. These fortifications were to bulwark Rumania against an expected attack from Hungary. When in Vienna last fortnight Germany and Italy forced Rumania to give up one-half of Transylvania and the Carol Line to Hungary (TIME, Sept. 9), the instinctive reaction of many Rumanians was that the Government had let them be robbed. It took no great efforts of the Nazi Iron...
...statesman who capitulated at Vienna on orders from Carol II, Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilescu, last week suffered a nervous breakdown on the train back to Bucharest. But more than nerves were breaking. Rumanian editors, who for years had supported the regime, suddenly turned around and told the people of graft and corruption in building the Carol Line, denounced rampant rottenness in State and Court...
...Rumania corruption has always been more or less chronic, but King Carol in the past ten years has put up a show of developing from a Royal Scapegrace, first class, into a dictator, second class. But last week many of his subjects saw him as an archtraitor, or as an arch-fool who relied upon the guarantee of Great Britain to save Rumania...
Whose Iron? Adolf Hitler was putting the finishing touches to Mein Kampf in 1925 when the "Soldiers of Archangel Michael" (later the Iron Guard) was founded in Rumania. In recent years every effort by Carol to squelch the Guard - and over 2,000 youths of the Guard were executed last year by royal decree in a blood purge - has been quietly blocked by the Führer. Here was a ready-made fifth column and Hitler was not going to let it be wiped out. The Iron Guardists, nearly all fanatical Rumanian patriots of Sinn Fein recklessness, were...