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Though all such rumors are sure to be denied up to the moment of official announcement (usually a month or two before the marriage is to take place) it seemed certain last week that the Rumanian and Italian Governments have taken the possibility of dynastic union under serious advisement...
Next day a trainload of anti-Semite Rumanian students, en route from Kishinev to Jassy, decided to express their contempt for Jews at Calarasi. When the train drew to a halt they seized the Jewish engineer and bound him to his engine. Dashing through the town, they laid hands on whatever Jews and Jewesses they chanced to meet, dragged these unfortunates to the railway station and flogged them severely. Then, releasing the engineer, they made a final gesture of scorn by climbing back into their train and allowing him to proceed, confident that he would not take revenge...
Bratiano. Bearded, sleek-vested Rumanian diplomats received the correspondents with reserve, refused to be quoted, uttered however a platitude in which there is much truth: "Gentlemen, now as for many years, the political situation in Rumania is Jon Bratiano...
Apparently it is. That extraordinary man, whose family have supplied the "Mayors of the Palace"* to the present Rumanian dynasty since its inception (1866), is not now Premier, but Premier General Averescu is universally admitted to be his puppet. The Bratiano clan controls the oil and much of the industry of Rumania. More vitally it controls the indescribably corrupt electoral machinery of Rumania by which new parties achieve overwhelming majorities and old ones are wiped out by the figurative pressure of a button: the button connecting the residence of Jon Bratiano by private telephone with the office of the Chief...
...number of his illegitimate children, of whom the most notable is the son of Mme. Zizi Lambrino, his one-time morganatic wife. Her suit to establish the legitimacy of her son (TIME, Nov. 29) was thrown out of court last week, in Paris, the judge considering that only Rumanian courts are competent to adjudicate the matter...