Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years, however, Carol has settled down to his job as king in a manner calculated to please his distant cousins at London. Although when in Bucharest Mme Lupescu lives in a villa convenient to the royal palace, King Carol has made himself salesman for Rumania in the best British Empire tradition, dissolved the Rumanian Iron Guards (Nazis), booted out a premier who was too antiSemitic. All this has made him a little more acceptable to the British royal family. Last week Carol's first official call was on Queen Mother Mary at Maryborough House, where he presented gifts...
...having to return virtually emptyhanded, Carol and the Crown Prince canceled tentative plans for a longer private stay, headed back to Bucharest. On the way the King was expected to call on Chancellor Hitler and German economic experts, who will probably lose no time in reminding him that a recent German offer to develop Rumanian oil fields and purchase Rumania's entire wheat crop for the next two years, in exchange for German manufactured goods, still stands. But they have no money to lend...
...book about the old buff brick house at No. 10 Downing Street, the most famed address in the Empire. She announced: "It will begin with its first occupant, a daughter of Charles II, and finish with the black cat. That black cat has appeared at every opportune moment in recent weeks...
...unpleasant realities of 1938 for the Occident is that the West is being kicked out of East Asia by Japan. The recent establishment of the monopolistic, Japanese-financed North China and Central China Development Companies is an extension of the same Japanese methods used to squeeze Occidental trade out of Manchukuo. Japan's conquest of Canton last month put 20,000 British traders in Hong Kong temporarily, if not permanently, out of business. The Yangtze Valley is virtually closed to all except Japanese salesmen...
...readers to think for themselves, it also shows her grave limitations: lack of contact with, and a prim insensitivity to. the genuine achievements of the movement whose misadvertisement she abhors. Few lovers of art will agree with her acid comments on Grand Old Man Henri Matisse, some of whose recent paintings and drawings, including Rumanian Blouse (see cut), pleased visitors last week at the Manhattan Gallery of Son Pierre Matisse...