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...hour after hour in Rome the Italian security police questioned their prize Rumanian refugee-an army colonel who was also a distinguished psychiatrist. They questioned him not because they doubted his story (which they did not for long) but because of what he had to tell. Rumania, Czar Nicholas II once said, is not a nationality but a profession. To judge by the doctor's story, being a Rumanian Communist leader today is getting close to being the oldest of professions...
Allow me to add a few words to your Feb. 11 article "Anastasia", regarding the alleged fortune deposited in England by the late Czar Nicholas of Russia. In July 1917 Alexander Kerensky, the revolutionary Prime Minister, declared that "all rumors regarding the fortune of the Czar abroad is a baseless legend." Actually, what started this legend was the enormous sums in gold rubles deposited in England by the Russian Imperial government during the first World War to cover purchases for ammunition. This sum was frozen by the British government after the Communists seized power. These funds, of course, had nothing...
...moviegoers flocking to see Actress Ingrid Bergman in her current hit role as Anastasia have had to leave their theaters with the question unanswered: Was the bewildered, scarred and unstrung girl who claimed to have escaped alive from that Uralian basement really the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, the Czar's fourth daughter? For 35 years the question has been asked and answered, but until last week never officially settled...
...Wales, gave a royal welcome to the Grand Duchess. Many of those firmest in proclaiming her authenticity were distant relatives and friends of her supposed family-but one branch, the German House of Hesse, to which the Empress of Russia had belonged, declined to accept the newcomer. The Czar, it was said, had deposited some 20 million rubles in England before the revolution, and the House of Hesse wanted to assure itself a prior right to the money...
...83rd Civil Chamber of the West Berlin District Court at last reached a decision. In an impressive dossier of official documents, it notified Anna's lawyers that in its opinion their client was not the Romanov Princess, and had no claim to any part of the late Czar's estate...