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Clearly flushed with hopes and expectations, Prince Carol talked with blazing indiscretion to correspondents while he smoked innumerable cigarets. Said he: "I wish to qualify a statement recently made by one of my aides that I will be upon the Rumanian throne in two months. That was merely his personal opinion. It may be two months or it may be two years...
Motoring from Nice to Monte Carlo, Prince Carol conferred there with the one Rumanian who can conceivably set him upon the throne, M. Juliu Maniu, doughty Leader of the Rumanian Peasant Party (Opposition). At peasant mass meetings throughout Rumania, M. Maniu has furiously denounced the Government of Premier Vintila Bratiano and skirted treason by dark hints against the Regency. That the leading opposition statesman should thus journey all the way from Bucharest to Monte Carlo for a conference with Prince Carol gave an aura of importance, at last, to that loose-lipped, irresolute young...
...defy the possibility that a cabinet-any cabinet-could be formed. The wily Vukitchevitch by hook & by crook and King Alexander by imperative royal command had again induced the Jugoslav "national minorities" to enter a coalition headed by the "Radical" (reactionary) Vukitchevitch, now the chief bulwark of the Throne...
...complicated games in the world. It has changed very little since two kings imprisoned in a palace courtyard invented it and other kings in other courtyards played it in hose and doublet. In the gallery of the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York is a king's throne copied from one the Bourbons used to sit on to watch their sons and relatives...
...Cabinet of Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin spoke to the country, last week, through a speech which was drafted by its members but pronounced, according to custom, by His Majesty, from the Throne (see above...