RUMANIA: Carol's Five-Year Plan

Wearily in Paris last week General Condescu, representing King Carol II, went the rounds of His Majesty's former mistresses, his former wife Queen Helen, and Prince Nicholas, the King's brother from whom His Majesty is estranged. General Condescu attends to their various financial wants.

General Condescu said that to save money it might be necessary to install Prince Nicholas and his new commoner bride in the chateau at Belleme where Mistress Lupescu used to live. She is now believed to be in Bucharest with the King, though her presence the Rumanian Government half-heartedly denies.

"The soldiers of the Rumanian Army have...

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