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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...
...most disastrous times, many people sat in cafes, talked of other things. Rumanians were gradually learning many more unpleasant things than they already knew about their ex-King Carol, who abdicated last September (TIME, Sept. 16) with redheaded Magda Lupescu...
Under house arrest in a Seville hotel, ex-King Carol and his titian paramour Magda Lupescu earnestly sought the "protection" of President Roosevelt to keep the Gestapo from sending "The Lupe" and shady-dealing palace favorite Ernest Udarianu back to the Iron Guard. She is accused of having been directly responsible for the assassination of its Leader and No. 1 Rumanian Fascist, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, he of having looted the Treasury for his royal master. Powerless and apparently in the hands of the Gestapo, Carol last week had time to contemplate that Europe was fast becoming too small...
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...