RUMANIA: Carol's Crown

Exiled Carol von Hohenzollern returned suddenly by airplane to Bucharest last week and Parliament in extraordinary session proclaimed him King Carol II.

Thus far the life of His Majesty since early youth has been a series of exclusively amorous escapades. Yet today these are of less than no importance to his people. They showed their feelings last week by a frenzied all-night demonstration of relief and joy. Rumania, like the Biblical father of the prodigal son, seemed to say: "This my son was dead, and...

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