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Meanwhile King Carol II of Rumania, also in Paris on his way home from the funeral of British George V, personally telephoned new French Premier Albert Sarraut to ask that his entourage of French detectives be called off. Since the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia occurred when M. Sarraut was Minister of the Interior and his careless Cabinet was largely blamed (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934 el seq.), M. Sarraut last week made an exceedingly firm reply to King Carol...
Result: His Majesty on four evenings in succession gave his guards the slip. With a red-haired woman on his arm who appeared to be either his red-haired Jewish mistress, Magda Lupescu, or her famed double, King Carol ordered night club employes to "act as if you did not know my identity." Sedate and dominant, Mme Lupescu is not adept at Argentine rhythms. His Majesty, after sitting out one tango, called to a brunette to come and dance with him. He half rose, then was tugged firmly back into his chair by his red-head...
...Majesty was nightly the focus of gay revels, and on the morning of King George's funeral was in such condition that a masseur named Stoebs was hastily summoned from a fashionable West End Turkish bath. He worked over King Carol and produced some results but it was considered necessary to continue the massage in the royal limousine as it sped to Westminster Hall. In ensuing confusion Masseur Stoebs, in his white duck trousers and civilian coat from beneath which peeped a white masseur's sweater, fell into step after groggy and bloodshot-eyed Carol II behind...
...went about bleating . "Our King is lost!" and only found him just in time to rush His Majesty aboard his special boat train. Dover Castle gave him a farewell 21-gun salute as he stepped aboard the British destroyer Montrose. Of the five kings attending the funeral only two, Carol of Rumania and Boris of Bulgaria, were ferried across the Channel on a British destroyer; in addition they both received the honor of an escort of two more British destroyers...
Friends of Carol II excused his London spree by saying that his Jewish mistress Magda Lupescu, whom he left behind in Paris, exerts a "motherly influence" upon the King, and that with this suddenly removed his "boyish and highly susceptible nature" got out of hand. At the Ritz in Paris the King soon sobered. "I do not believe war is imminent," he wisely told correspondents. "In fact, I am confident peace can be maintained. In this respect I have great hopes for the reign of Edward VIII. He is a man endowed with rare equilibrium - rare equilibrium ! My own country...