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Once more Rumania grumbled that it was run by a woman behind the throne and all the grievances of Rumania were laid at her feet. According to her critics it was Magda who made or broke Cabinets; it was her scheme, first, to finance the pro-Nazi, anti-Jewish Iron Guards (which, incidentally, listed her as No. 1 to be assassinated) only later to get them jailed. A word with this combination Mme Pompadour and Rasputin would do wonders, it was said, and an invitation to her house was tantamount to a royal summons...
Early this year the King paid a visit to the Court of St. James's, later dropped in on Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden. He signed a trade treaty with Germany that looked like a complete national sellout, but the first thing he did when he got home was to shoot all the Nazi plotters he could find. During the summer he visited President Ismet Inönü of Turkey. When World War II started Rumania formally declared its neutrality, and none hoped more fervently than Carol II that Rumania would be able to keep...
...Dorothy Steeves is a member of British Columbia's Provincial Legislature. One day last week she went to bat. She never got to first base, for before she uttered a word, she had four strikes against her: she was a woman, a Socialist, a foreigner by birth, an empire-hater by conviction. "Enemies of peace," she cried, "are not all in Germany or Russia. They are right here. They are those who refuse to relinquish vested interests. . . . That word empire is connected with a history of horror and slaughter. I hope to see it disappear from our vocabulary...
Maurice Gustave Gamelin, the tight-lipped little Allied Generalissimo, last week held his first War II press reception for U. S. news correspondents. At the Ecole Militaire he received a delegation including five U. S. by-liners about to be taken up to the Maginot Line for the first time. For the first time silent Soldier Gamelin, 67, spoke his piece about the fighting...
...advantage of getting Saarbrücken's coal mines and steel mills back into commission. With 150 German shells coming over daily to establish critical ranges, with German planes reconnoitering busily to discover France's intentions, Forbach promised this week to furnish the Western Front's first clear-cut action, Generalissimo Gamelin with his first strong stand or first strategic surrender...