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Last week Bucharest's royal fop played the King more boldly than British George V (who despises him) would ever dare to do. In brief the Cabinet of peasant-born Premier Juliu Maniu "advised" His Majesty to dismiss from their jobs two of his special favorites, Col. Marinescu, Chief of Bucharest Police, and General Dumitrescu, Chief of Rumania's Gendarmerie. Instead of taking his Cabinet's advice, as George V would be bound to do, Carol II took his stand on Rumania's old-fashioned Constitution which gives the King broad powers, defied Premier Maniu...
...building his Cabinet Premier Maniu was able to include Rumania's other strong man and No. 1 diplomat, Nicholas Titulescu. He, up to last week, had waged guerrilla warfare against the French desire that Rumania join with France and Poland in signing non-aggression pacts with Soviet Russia...
Overnight Diplomat Titulescu abandoned his seemingly deathless hostility to a pact with Reds. Dr. Maniu was able to announce that the Rumanian Foreign Office (by which he meant M. Titulescu) will now "enter into friendly relations with the Soviet Union...
...Sinaia Palace, where the new Rumanian Cabinet received their seals and swore fealty to King Carol last week, Premier Maniu seemed to end his personal feud with the scapegrace monarch in these ringing words: "We will work to consolidate the Throne! We will erect a protecting wall about...
...Prince Mihai's eleventh birthday approached last week, his mother Princess Helen (who is estranged from King Carol and lives in London) traveled to Rumania. At the frontier she was met by the Rumanian Train and brought secretly to a suburban royal villa without entering Bucharest. Possibly Dr. Maniu, always a stanch champion of Princess Helen, will manage to patch things up. When he broke with the King two years ago Citizen Maniu reputedly said: "Sire, you can never be crowned unless the mother of Prince Mihai is crowned as Queen by your side...