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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...
Biggest catch of all was a munitions maker named Nicolas Malaxa. Having parlayed a shoestring into a chain of arms factories and a partnership in Rumania's largest iron works, he found his way into the confidence of Magda Lupescu and King Carol. When the Nazis took over and Carol abdicated, Malaxa began putting his chips on the Iron Guard. Last week he found he had guessed wrong again, when Rumanian Army artillery blasted him out of his barricaded home and he was put on trial for supplying the rebels with arms...
...purge rocked Bucharest to its rotting foundations. Murdered along with the police who had carried out the Iron Guard execution two years before were onetime Iron-Guard-purging Premier General George Argeseanu; General Gabriel Marinescu, onetime Bucharest police chief and watchdog over King Carol's redheaded paramour Magda Lupescu; Victor Ismandi, Minister of Justice when Codreanu was sentenced to prison...
Rumanians also heard that, since his arrival in Spain, Carol had apparently been too indifferent to Mme. Lupescu to visit her bedside when she had a nervous collapse complicated by a mouth infection. With him, in abdication, he had three automobiles, four Rembrandts, stamp and china collections, but there was no public knowledge as to how much money. Mme. Lupescu had between 15 and 20 dogs...
...last week the Spanish Government had apparently reached no decision on the Rumanian Government's request that Mme. Lupescu and ex-Lord Chamberlain Udarianu be sent back to Bucharest to stand trial, respectively, for the "murder" of No. 1 Iron Guardist Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the looting of the Rumanian treasury. The Rumanian "party" were apparently still under genteel Spanish detainment. Carol had been invited to Cuba...