RUMANIA: Dynasty Restored

Sleazy Bucharest, the "Paris of the Balkans,"* and all sprawling Rumania were agog. After three years in eclipse, the great political Dynasty of Bratianu—the makers of Rumania—were again ascendant last week over Rumania's Royal House of Hohenzollern. Buck-toothed King Carol, who has tried to play the Dictator, was forced to accept a new Cabinet chosen not by himself, as his National Peasant Party Cabinets have been, but by the National Liberal Party of the Dynasty of Bratianu.

Rumania, once a mere princedom attached to the Sultanate of Turkey, won independence and the...

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