Word: caroling
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Alexander of Jugoslavia trusted nobody, but at least he understood his neighbors, King Carol of Rumania and little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. For over a year, with the mounting threat of Nazi Germany and its dream of eastern expansion and the possibility of a Habsburg restoration in Austria, he attempted to arrange a meeting of all three Kings with their respective foreign ministers discreetly in the background. Always a new crisis in hectic Rumania had made the tripartite meeting impossible...
...junk dealer's daughter was again last week the issue that eclipsed all others in Rumania. It had been understood that King Carol was at last sending away this Jewish Pompadour. She was supposed to have been escorted out of the country and handsomely paid off by the Chief of Police of Bucharest. But last week red-haired Magda Lupescu was found to be still in Rumania and not all the King's censors and all the King's soldiers could suppress for more than a few days the fact that Pompadour Lupescu had come...
Thus attacked, King Carol, who has been ruling Rumania under a "state of siege" decree since the assassination of Premier Ion Duca by terrorists who openly made known that "Lupescu is next on our list" (TIME, Jan. 8). took council with Premier George Tatarescu who advised last week that the state of siege must be prolonged for another six months...
...Bucharest ghetto, legend enshrouds the wiles by which the junk dealer's daughter became La Pompadour. She is supposed to have learned that Carol would drive back one night along a certain woodland road. As the headlights of the royal car cut the darkness, out into the road staggered beauteous Magda, her clothing enticingly torn, her red hair flying. "Save me!" she cried and Carol, struck by her beauty, took her home, has been held by her charm ever since...
Ghetto friends of Magda's father insist that he considers the King a bad influence on his daughter, often urges Magda to break with Carol...