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The new King of Rumania, Michael I, five years old, was playing solemnly by himself on the lawn of the Little Pelesh. To this small chateau, some 50 miles from Bucharest, he had been brought last week, following his investiture, and barely 18 hours after the death of his grandfather, King Ferdinand I. Even as His Majesty rolled over lazily on the soft turf and gazed idly down upon the wooded valley of Pelesh, statesmen were busy in Bucharest drafting his first proclamation.
"SOLDIERS!"...
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