RUMANIA: Crackdown

Jews rejoiced last week as King Carol II cracked down with all his royal might on the anti-Semitic Iron Guard. In particular His Majesty's titian-haired Jewish Pompadour, Mme Magda Lupescu, who had to flee Rumania when anti-Semitism recently burst out, was highly delighted. She was expected soon to return to Bucharest. Meanwhile the King's forces worked day & night last week, arresting anti-Semites and piling them into Rumanian jails. They were accused of being "anti-Rumanian," and Carol II let it be known that the probable form of Government in Rumania for the immediate future is Military Dictatorship.

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