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Just so none of Der Angriff's readers would miss the contemporary point of this parody-parable, the face of Mme Magda Lupescu, the part-Jewish mistress of Rumania's King Carol, was used to illustrate the article. And to ram it home, next day the Frankfurter Zeitung's comment on Carol's shooting of Rumanian Nazis was concluded with the observation: "At some time, one is inclined to believe, Rumania will see a revolution, perhaps very soon...
Around King Carol himself there was once an Iron Guard clique. At one time, when there was a split in the group, Leader Codreanu was financed by the King's red-haired mistress, Mme Magda Lupescu, herself part Jewish, and on one occasion he escaped arrest by hiding in her house. When the "Little Fiihrer"was put on trial last summer many were the notables who risked royal displeasure by testifying to the Leader's undoubted patriotism...
...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...
State visitors at Buckingham Palace for three days last week were Rumania's King Carol II and 17-year-old Crown Prince Mihai. In the years after Carol had divorced his wife and temporarily abandoned his throne to live in France with lissome, red-haired Magda Lupescu, daughter of a Jewish druggist, he was persona non grata to the British royal family. Queen Mary refused to have him in her house...
...Guard terrorism. Last year one of his lieutenants, Jon Stelescu, left him, founded his own party, the Rumanian Crusaders. Shortly afterward, Apostate Stelescu was stabbed and shot to death. In a "heads-shall-roll" list discovered by Rumanian police, Stelescu's party had placed as No. 1, Jewish Magda Lupescu, the King's "favorite...