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...were mobilizing. In Moscow the Province of Bessarabia is regarded as an Alsace-Lorraine, basely stolen by Rumania while the young Soviet Union was battling for its very life in 1918. In the atlases used by Soviet schoolchildren Bessarabia is shown as still part of Russia, labeled: "Temporarily under Rumanian Military Occupation." Sooner or later blood is bound to be spilled over this issue, and reports of the Soviet mobilization made Prime Minister Maniu fear the spilling might begin last week...
With his major international problem thus well in hand, M. Maniu turned reluctantly to a pile of documents just brought by special courier from the Rumanian Legation at Berlin, dealing with the ab normality of Count Alexander von Hochberg, fiance of Princess Ileana of Rumania (TIME...
What could the Rumanian Government do? Princess Ileana is not in line for the Throne, has a private fortune of $260,000, and is of age. The King of England can forbid the marriage of any member of the Royal Family, but the King and the Government of Rumania have such power only where the marriage involves the Throne. Moreover Dowager Queen Marie backed her daughter, called Count Alexander "an extremely sympathetic person, especially welcome to me because of his English blood."?His mother was Mary Theresa ("Daisy") Cornwallis-West, kinswoman of the English Earl De La Warr...
...until he fell from a scaffold and broke all the bones in his feet. He was also a wonderful storyteller: some of his tales took weeks to finish. Mike discovered afterward that they came from the Arabian Nights: his father had heard them in Oriental marketplaces, from Turkish or Rumanian peasants. Once his father tried voting. He was taken by a Jewish Tammany man to the polls, voted three times, was suddenly hit over the head with a blackjack. Groaned he to his wife: "Katie, you were right. Voting is only for Irish bums. Never again will I do such...
...belief that Princess Ileana's father was not the late King Ferdinand of Rumania but is Prince Barbu Stirby. The wide currency of this belief in the Balkans was a decisive factor in thwarting efforts by Queen Marie of Rumania to arrange a marriage between Princess Ileana (legitimate under Rumanian law) and Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...