Word: rumanians
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...situation is perhaps paradoxical," said Count Pokolovsky, going on with his pressing, "but His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias having signed my credentials, I remain at my post. I attend all the functions of the Rumanian Court. Every Russian New Year I receive thousands of letters from His Majesty's loyal subjects in all parts of the world...
...when Playboy Carol, having flown home from philandering in Paris, snatched the Crown from fat, phlegmatic Boy King Mihai's head. Never seeming to mind his demotion to Crown Prince, 12-year-old Mihai stood with his father last week to receive the Fourth Anniversary homage offered by Rumanian mayors. Cried Carol, who now likes to strut the Dictator, echo Mussolini: "My slogan is work! Only through good work for the welfare of your country can you demonstrate your loyalty to me. Work! Work...
...charged with having accepted bribes to throw arms contracts to the great Czecho-slovak firm of Skoda. One of them committed suicide, others went to jail and the Skoda contracts were canceled. Not trusting any of his salesmen, Douglas Vickers was in Bucharest last week angling for this rich Rumanian prize. At week's end his London friends had the impression that the Rumanian contracts were safely in his pocket...
...example: In March, 1933, the Rumanian government discovered that the Skoda works had evaded taxes to the extent of 65,000,000 let (something over $600,000). It looked into the safe of Bruno Seletski, Skoda's agent in Rumania, and discovered that he had distributed more than 1,000,000 let (close to $10,000,000 among the "right" officials of both the government and the army, and their wives and mistresses, and that hundreds of thousands had gone to "charity" and "entertainment" because the beneficiaries "will be used by us some...
Easter Sunday, falling last week in Rumania according to the Orthodox Church calendar, was to be a great day for a cabal of Rumanian Army officers. Naturally King Carol, his fat little son Michael, his brother Nicholas and Queen Mother Marie, would go to worship in the 270-year-old Cathedral, which stands high above Bucharest's gardens and gilt cupolas. Someone would throw a grenade, another and another into the midst of the royal worshippers. Entirely rid of its eccentric royal family, Rumania would be ready for a military dictatorship. One chore would remain and that would...