Word: mihai
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...Hohenzollern when he abdicated as Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. n, 1926). His father King Ferdinand was then alive. His mother Queen Marie had yet to make her U. S. tour. Not until venerable King Ferdinand died 17 months later was Carol's bonny five-year-old son proclaimed King Mihai (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927). As he waited at the bleak Munich airdrome last week Carol talked earnestly with two members of Prime Minister Juliu Maniu's Cabinet who had flown up from Rumania to meet him. He was making no clandestine return, attempting no coup. He was welcome...
Very likely the father did spring up the stairs "three at a time" as announced, but his reputed first words to Mihai have an odd sound: "My darling little King...
When Prince Nicholas entered the palace, the brothers rushed weeping into each other's arms. Like a plummet at this point Boy King Mihai dropped out of the legend, for he was not to be king any more. Romantic interest was transferred to Carol's triumphant passage through streets jammed with madly cheering citizens to the barracks of his old bodyguard...
...that Nicholas began showing signs of nervous irascibility. His brother's lapse opened the door to power, but of limited power only. Before, Nicholas was a minor prince; now he is a member of the Regency Council, a great step forward; but when Carol's son King Mihai comes of age Nicholas will be completely eclipsed. The sudden feeling of limited power has upset his balance...
...first carload of no million British-made bas-reliefs of eight-year-old King Mihai of Rumania was being circulated in Bucharest last week. The portraits (see cut) are being struck by the British Royal Mint, 5 million on Rumanian 20-lei (12?) pieces and 60 million on 5-lei (3?) coins, all of a base metal which the governments concerned refuse to describe more fully than as a "new alloy...