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Cluj is also the home of Editor Dumitru Radu Popescu, 30, who touched off a storm of criticism last October with his story The Blue Lion, a scorching critique of early Communist schooling in Rumania. In one scene, Popescu and his classmates are being searched by a zealous Paukerite teacher for "poisonous" books from the perennially locked school library. "They frisked our pockets and passed their hands over our bodies," wrote Popescu, "and since this didn't seem to satisfy them, they ordered us to take off our clothes. I opened my mouth wide and said 'Aaaaaaaah...
...Bucharest the whole front page of the anti-semitic Universul was devoted to an article in which Minister of Interior David Popescu certified with details that the ex-King is an "immoral, epileptic, degenerate exploiter and usurper." M. Popescu summed up: "Future generations of Rumanians will remember Carol as the greatest misfortune his people ever suffered. Today ended part of the purgatory which our people have endured for ten years...
...scandal that never withers is Rumania's hardy perennial that munitions are sold in Bucharest on a strict basis of bribe-as-you-go. Disclosures of the week concerned the deal with Skoda, Czechoslovakia's Munitions Trust, which backfired when General Zika Popescu of the Royal Rumanian Army put a bullet through his brain (TIME, April 10, 1933). Just what had been at stake General Cihofhi of the Royal Ordnance Service volubly revealed to a Parliamentary committee last week...
There was an intense amount of internal and international noise over the scandal, but it subsided in the general political turnover in Rumania last fall. And everything, including the bribes, is just about where it was, except General Popescu, who, in a fit of conscience, shot himself fatally through the head...
Until last week Rumania's Parliament had a handsome speaker's rostrum. After three weeks of howling insults, fist fights, hurling inkpots-all caused by Rumania's Skoda munitions scandal and the suicide of General Zika Popescu (TIME, April 10)-the rostrum was reduced to a blasted stump of kindling wood last week. The public was still in the dark on just who had bribed whom, just how much money Czechoslovak munitions tycoons had paid to win their $90,000,000 contract, and what had become of the money...