RUMANIA: Gold Medal Mother

Rumanians learned last week who is the very best mother in all Rumania. They were told by the Dowager Queen Marie—herself the mother of three Rumanian princesses, Princess Ileana, ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece and Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. So modest is Dowager Queen Marie that she did not proclaim herself "Best Mother" as some catty enemies thought she would. Instead a painstaking search has been carried on by Her Majesty for some weeks, with a view to bestowing a large gold medal on Rumania's very best mother. Last week the 32-year-old mother of a bonny boy of seven received...

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