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Representing not much of anything, a Manhattan society called The Friends of The Duke of Windsor in America last week issued invitations to a forthcoming dinner. Printed on the inside of the invitation was a quotation from a leading Octavian, Author Compton Mackenzie (The Windsor Tapestry): "To hear the King speaking [1936] about peace was almost to restore one's belief that peace really was going to be achieved. The very timbre of his voice had a tonic quality. It was like a light dry wine." Leading Friends: Pastor Christian Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle...
Only a few months ago, King Carol II picked a Premier, the late Octavian Goga, who was one of the most arrant reactionaries, Jew-baiters and oppressors of minority peoples in all Europe (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week the present Premier...
...Died. Octavian Goga, 57, onetime anti-Semitic Premier of Rumania; of a paralytic stroke, near Cluj, Transylvania. For the past year a dominant figure in Rumanian politics, he became Premier last December, was dismissed by King Carol in February (TIME, Jan. 10, et seq.), spent his last days in exile...
King Carol's is not a master mind, but His Majesty saw clearly enough that Octavian Goga could no longer conceivably win the Rumanian election scheduled for March. Everyone else in Rumania saw this too, and although only a few thought the King had "planned it that way," none was surprised when Carol II dismissed Premier Goga with curt, characteristic Balkan ruthlessness, abruptly snapping: "I want your resignation...
...Government of Rumania, headed by Premier Octavian Goga, resembles German fascism in its (1 antiSemitism, 2 abolition of the Monarchy, 3 abolition of all labor unions, 4 abolition of all but one political party, 5 active support of General Franco in Spain...