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Over mountains, down dales, through spreading forests and along hard rutty roads trudged hundreds of Rumanian peasants and then thousands, last week, to the old Transylvania walled town of Alba Julia. The peasants were responding to the pied piping of their great political champion, Dr. Juliu Maniu, not long since a peasant himself. They know, for he has told them, that the aristocratic cabinet at Bucharest derives its power from a parliament elected by corruption and police: bullying of the voters. Therefore the trudgers were converging upon Alba Julia to take a great oath and hurl a potent warning...
...with all the fireboats and miles of paper streamers to greet him. That most skilled of welcomers, Mayor Walker, will offer him the keys to the city and he will find more of his countrymen on its streets than there are in his own capital. He will lecture on Rumanian politics and people will applaud him. He will attend dinners and be lionized. He will intrigue to his heart's content and no one will say him may until he has lived here for a while. Then he will decide that there is no reason why he should go back...
...When I began to write my story I experienced difficulty in finding material that would interest them. I finally hit upon the following idea-"The old grandmother in a little American house brings a little orphan child a Rumanian doll. As soon as the child takes the gift in its arms the doll comes to life and starts to sing Rumanian songs. The child is fascinated. Then, as if by magic, the doll whisks the child away to distant Rumania...
...American child and the bewitched doll, accompanied by a little Rumanian shepherd child, travel through Rumania. Rumania would not hold such charm for American children if the Queen of Rumania didn't live there. It was not easy lo describe myself, but I hope I succeeded...
Speaking at last of her six-year-old grandson, King Mihai of Rumania, the Dowager Queen, 52, said: "At present he speaks only two languages, Rumanian and English. He is a very understanding child and he often blurts out the most unex pected remarks. He is good looking. . . . But whenever I see him a certain sadness overcomes me, for we cherished other dreams...