Word: hohenzollerns
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Married. Princess Henriette Schönaich-Carolath, 22, daughter of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern's second wife Princess Hermine; and Prince Karl Franz Josef of Prussia, 23, son of the ex-Kaiser's sixth son, Prince Joachim Franz Humbert; at Doorn...
Dictators have bulletproof railway cars and last week Carol Hohenzollern, royal dictator of Rumania for the last two and a half years, barely escaped alive from his country as lead spat against the armored sides of his speeding private train. The loyalty to this Hohenzollern of a simple Rumanian stationmaster at Timisoara was all that saved Carol II from the wrath of his bitter people...
During the ten-year reign of Carol Hohenzollern two premiers were shot out from under him. The proud, nervous, chain-smoking King, who committed the supreme political folly of trying to give Rumania a regime of royal totalitarianism with no base among the masses, knew he faced death. If the train failed to stop it might be dynamited or derailed. Taking this chance, Carol ordered his engineer to stop for nothing. He roared through Timisoara station amid a hail of bullets which smashed many of the windows, missed occupants of the train who flung themselves on the floor, deeply scarred...
Enraged, Iron Guardsmen swarmed aboard another locomotive in the Timisoara railway yards, forced the engineer at pistol point to chase the Hohenzollern special. Like Keystone cops, other Guardsmen piled cursing into Timisoara taxis, bounced off full speed in a wild chase to head off the train at Jimbola on the frontier...
Premier Mussolini sent a pilot train full of Italian police to lead the Hohenzollern Special across Italy from Yugoslavia to Switzerland, and at Lugano station Carol was cheered by Swiss as he alighted smiling and took Magda to a swank hotel overlooking the lake. They dined sumptuously with the Rumanian Minister to Switzerland, sitting at table until after 10 p.m., applied to Vichy by telegraph for permission to settle on the French Riviera. The Vichy Government hemmed & hawed. The Axis might not like...