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...Hohenzollern King Carol's heaviest worries is the success of Germans in founding, financing and rapidly expanding a native Nazi party in Rumania. Last week the King's police swooped down on 20,000 Rumanian peasant Nazis at Kishineff looking for their paymaster. Several men seized at the Nazi rally proved to be Germans. Searched to the skin, one turned out to be a walking bundle of banknotes. When he was identified as Herr Friedrich Weber, correspondent in Rumania of Realmleader Hitler's personal newsorgan, Volkischer Beobachter ("People's Observer"), the King's police clapped...
...Bucharest 13-year-old Crown Prince Mihai roamed the palace scratching matches on the seat of his pants, a trick learned from a Rumanian Consul recently returned from...
...short stories by Peter Neagoe, called Storm, was banned by the U. S. Customs on the ground of obscenity. Last year his first novel, Easter Sun, got a good hand from critics. By last week Author Neagoe was better known in the U. S. than most of his Rumanian compatriots. Earthy but not obscure, Peter Neagoe writes of barnyard happenings but not with the leer of the city-dweller. A Transylvanian Sylvanus, he tells with country gusto the chronicles of his sly, lustful, saintly and simple fellow-peasants...
None of these 20 stories was translated. Author Neagoe writes in English, which he studied to good purpose in. his years in the U. S. Author Neagoe's sturdy language fits his Rumanian senses well but seems awkwardly foreign when he writes of the U. S. One story ("Gavrila's Confession") is as good as anything in the Decameron, has the same flavor of good-natured tolerance: a peasant wife, caught misbehaving by her husband, persuades him he is possessed by an evil imagination, makes him go to the priest to confess the whole thing...
This year 157 courses are listed at the various European universities in languages, music, fine arts, drama, crafts, and social-economic studies. The Rumanian group will again spend part of their time with Queen Marie at the summer palace in Sinaia...