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...great and little powers; British and French oil men on their way out, and German and Italian oil men on their way in; Gestapo agents and Ovra agents and OGPU agents, or men who were at least said to be agents; amiable Gauleiters and hardheaded economic experts; distinguished Rumanian appeasers and mink-clad German and Austrian beauties who were paid to keep them happy. ... As the drama of bloodless German conquest later on drew to its bitter end, the old order dropped out of the play. Then wild-eyed greenshirt dignitaries, catapulted into power from a concentration camp, would make...
Spats & Monocles. But, for the Countess, the deathbed atmosphere of Rumania was best typified by the "Old Excellencies." There were two of these strange creatures in the lobby of the Athene Palace, "a kind of token force of a large army of some 700 living Rumanian former cabinet ministers, and of innumerable diplomats and generals." Wearing white linen spats and monocles, they sat at their table in the lobby from noon until midnight, studying "women's points." One Old Excellency had "the face of a sick greyhound." The other, "grey-haired and heavy-eyed," had a pointed beard like...
...breathed very loudly through his short nose." The old men were very cordial while the seal kissed the Countess' hand with "very moist lips." But as soon as he moved on, Bratianu-beard said: "Voila le gigolo le phis dangereux de Bucharest." All his friends in high Rumanian society knew, said the Old Excellencies, that "he lived on women and blackmail" and "worked for Moruzov's Secret Police." Nearly everybody in the Athene Palace worked for Moruzov, they said, from waiters and washroom attendants to "the apple-cheeked page boys . . . and, of course, the demimondaines who sat professionally...
Some of Carol's qualifications for the job of Regent were recalled: > On his first visit to New York, in 1920, he bought a bartender's guide. > In London, after George V's funeral in 1936, he went on such a binge that Rumanian attaches cried "Our King is lost!" until he turned up just in time for the boat train. > Of the present Duke of Windsor, he passed the peculiar judgment: "I have great hopes for the reign of Edward VIII. He is a man endowed with rare equilibrium -rare equilibrium!" > After years of Rumanian misrule...
There was little likelihood that Carol's ambitions toward the Regency would be taken seriously. He was repudiated by Rumanian refugee groups in both Washington and London. Washington rumor said he had been advised not to apply for a U.S. visa...