RUMANIA: Jitters

At Brasov, where that Jewish Juno, large, muscular, red-haired Mme Magda Lupescu, often dallies with King Carol II, guards caught a fully-armed spy roaming the Royal Palace last week. Spy Ludwig Andrei had in his breast pockets plans of the palace, its secret entrances and those sliding panels which have enabled Rumanian Royalty to pass with such discretion from one bedchamber to another. Next day police, gendarmes and detectives raided scores of hotels, restaurants and clubs, stopped railway trains to search passengers to the skin. By nightfall Spy Andrei had been...

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