Word: carolling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Magda Lupescu, henna-haired mistress of King Carol of Rumania, always says, "The interests of Rumania weigh . . . more than any other consideration." Suiting the action to the word, she last week journeyed to Paris, put up at the Hotel Meurice (where the Duke & Duchess of Windsor were also resident) in order to be on hand for the state visit of Carol before he went on to Berlin to discuss trade relations with Field Marshal Goring...
Since Rumania is already under a virtual dictatorship, Kind Carol's purge of his Fascist opponents is in itself hardly an event of universal importance. At the same time, if viewed in the light of corollary events, the purge takes on added significance. It may indicate that little Rumania has decided definitely to oppose--and, with the help of Britain, effectively to oppose--the eastward march of the rumbling Fascist juggernaut...
...Osten. Not only was there in Rumania a well-organized Fascist party and a large German minority, but there were the rich oil fields of Bessarabia and there was the coveted Ukraine beyond. The possibility of effective resistance to a Hitler thus tempted was generally discarded. But recently King Carol visited London, stopped off at Berlin, and went home drastically to purge the fascist party. The purge followed within a few days of the Berlin visit. Such an unexpected turn of events strongly suggests a pointed rebuff to Hitler...
...real purpose of Carol's visit was to wangle financial and political support for Rumania from the British Government and London financial circles. In the days before Munich, Britain and France were liberal with credits to the small States of Europe, in the belief that such grants could stave off German commercial expansion. But with the Munich Pact and British Prime Minister Chamberlain's open admission that it is Germany's natural position to dominate trade in the Danubian basin, Britain's purse strings have been pulled tight. Last week Carol reportedly asked: 1) loan...
Peeved at having to return virtually emptyhanded, Carol and the Crown Prince canceled tentative plans for a longer private stay, headed back to Bucharest. On the way the King was expected to call on Chancellor Hitler and German economic experts, who will probably lose no time in reminding him that a recent German offer to develop Rumanian oil fields and purchase Rumania's entire wheat crop for the next two years, in exchange for German manufactured goods, still stands. But they have no money to lend...