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Rumanians heard how ex-King Carol had behaved when the eleven-car special train on which he fled ran a gantlet of pro-Nazi Iron Guardist gunfire at Timisoara railroad station. Carol had jumped into a bathtub while bullets smashed windows (see cut), killed an engineer, wounded the station master. At the same time, Carol's former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu had flung his foppish self under a table. Beyond the frontier Carol gave the train crew $2 apiece. One man refused...
...bulletproof railway cars and last week Carol Hohenzollern, royal dictator of Rumania for the last two and a half years, barely escaped alive from his country as lead spat against the armored sides of his speeding private train. The loyalty to this Hohenzollern of a simple Rumanian stationmaster at Timisoara was all that saved Carol II from the wrath of his bitter people...
...royal special careened from Bucharest toward the frontier of Yugoslavia, armed members of the Iron Guard (Ku Klux Rumanian organization) roughly asked the stationmaster whether the train would stop at Timisoara. "Yes, I swear it," he replied, but slyly managed to dot-dash from his station a warning to Carol II that his only chance was to run the gantlet of the Iron Guard...
...supreme political folly of trying to give Rumania a regime of royal totalitarianism with no base among the masses, knew he faced death. If the train failed to stop it might be dynamited or derailed. Taking this chance, Carol ordered his engineer to stop for nothing. He roared through Timisoara station amid a hail of bullets which smashed many of the windows, missed occupants of the train who flung themselves on the floor, deeply scarred the armored sides of the royal private car, wounded the fireman in the locomotive...
Enraged, Iron Guardsmen swarmed aboard another locomotive in the Timisoara railway yards, forced the engineer at pistol point to chase the Hohenzollern special. Like Keystone cops, other Guardsmen piled cursing into Timisoara taxis, bounced off full speed in a wild chase to head off the train at Jimbola on the frontier...