As though doing homage to the imperial dead, French correspondents in Bucharest last week hovered around a greying count whom they called "The last Ambassador of the Tsar."
He had suddenly lost his job as a result of Rumania's belated recognition of the Soviet Union (TIME, June 18). Last week King Carol's Government told Count
Koziel Pokolovsky that he must get out of Imperial Russia's big house near the Royal Palace.
"If you only knew how sumptuous all this was!" cried an aged Russian servitor. "The broken windows are stuffed with paper now,...