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Like Harun-al-Raschid and the Mayor of Philadelphia (see p. 15), H. M. Carol II, Rumania's buck-toothed ruler, sorely in need of personal popularity, last week disguised himself and went forth among his people to see how his country was running...
...dominion over palm and pine." Fervently as any of his generation has Winston Churchill believed in Great Britain's divine right to rule-by force. His grandfather was the 7th Duke of Marlborough, descendant of that first Duke of Marlborough of whose going to war French children still carol. He believes that it is not only dangerous but disgraceful to make any promises whatever to Indian Nationalist opinion. Those fire-eating Britons who believe with him turn to Tory Churchill as a leader. Having made his break with Baldwin last week he rushed to a Manchester platform, expounded...
...Carol's nerves could not stand the strain of a family council just at this time...
Vintila's Funeral. Carol's nerves probably stood very well the strain of knowing last week that apoplexy had just struck and killed his strongest foe: Vintila Bratianu. The House of Hohenzollern, imported from Germany, was placed on the throne of Rumania by the native House of Bratianu. A dynasty of titanic Bratianu Prime Ministers ruled the land until Ion Bratianu's death (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927). His brother, Vintila, every inch a Bratianu in height, broad frame and commanding mien, had not the necessary political dexterity to rule. Though Vintila became Prime Minister, the great Dynasty...
...Coste & Bellonte flight; the Gandhi movement; the U. S. Drought; the discovery of Planet X (Pluto); the return of King Carol. I. N. S.-November's election; Coste & Bellonte; South American revolutions; return of King Carol; Italian earthquake. Editor & Publisher carried the survey further, asked editors to imagine what might be the "sweetest" news break of 1931 (barring death and disaster). Some imaginings: Roy Wilson Howard, chairman of Scripps-Howard papers, Paul Patterson, president of Baltimore Sun, Ik Shuman, executive editor of Paul Block newspapers, and others: Affirmation by the Supreme Court of Judge Clark's decision invalidating...