"I will pay part of this, not all!" cried Mme Vintila Bratianu, flashing eyed, when a representative of Rumania's National Peasant Party Cabinet presented her last week with a bill for 2,000,000 lei covering her late, great husband's State Funeral (TIME, Jan. 5).
Two million lei is roughly $12,000. At this price the funeral was dirt cheap— consisting as it did of three special railway trains with dining cars attached and an entire series of funeral services, one at each city en route with final honors at Bucharest.
According to Widow Bratianu, however, the...
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