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...intend to retain cultural relations with Rus-sia." It would surprise no Rumanian if King Carol should break off with Joseph Stalin the diplomatic relations established between Russia and Rumania by M. Titulescu. With Nazi influence mounting at Bucharest the Jewish mistress of the King, red-haired Magda Lupescu, found her position last week greatly altered for the worse. His Majesty still looks to her for a certain amount of mothering when he is tired or nervous, but King Carol's infatuation has ended...
Leaving the parade ground, King Carol and his red-headed Magda Lupescu made a sentimental journey to the suburban château where for more than four years they lived in exile (TIME, June 16, 1930). Taking the Blue Train to Nice, they were up until dawn, dancing in the streets at a city fete. Next day His Majesty, 42, motored out to the villa of famed Dr. Serge Voronoff, monkey-gland rejuvenator...
Almost a family friend of 65-year-old Dr. Voronoff is King Carol. Pretty, vivacious Mme Voronoff the 21-year-old first cousin of Magda Lupescu...
Result: His Majesty on four evenings in succession gave his guards the slip. With a red-haired woman on his arm who appeared to be either his red-haired Jewish mistress, Magda Lupescu, or her famed double, King Carol ordered night club employes to "act as if you did not know my identity." Sedate and dominant, Mme Lupescu is not adept at Argentine rhythms. His Majesty, after sitting out one tango, called to a brunette to come and dance with him. He half rose, then was tugged firmly back into his chair by his red-head...
Friends of Carol II excused his London spree by saying that his Jewish mistress Magda Lupescu, whom he left behind in Paris, exerts a "motherly influence" upon the King, and that with this suddenly removed his "boyish and highly susceptible nature" got out of hand. At the Ritz in Paris the King soon sobered. "I do not believe war is imminent," he wisely told correspondents. "In fact, I am confident peace can be maintained. In this respect I have great hopes for the reign of Edward VIII. He is a man endowed with rare equilibrium - rare equilibrium ! My own country...