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"Statesmen will know how best to assemble all the national forces. They will build a wall around my throne to impose respect for my decisions and acts, for I have acted according to the laws and supreme interests of the monarchy and State." (Unquestionably this affirms His Majesty's dependence upon Jon Bratiano and his family of whom the next most potent is Vintila Bratiano, sly brother of Jon.) Opposition Squelched. Though the Fascist Army leaders remained an uncertain quantity in the possibility of a coup for Carol, the political (Carolist) Opposition headed by Professor Jorga appeared thoroughly squelched last week. This was definitely made clear in a statement by Professor Jorga to the foreign press:
"I will never support Carol if he seeks to obtain power by force of the army. Carol must ask the King's permission to visit him. He must also leave the woman with whom he lives immorally, free himself from his environment in Paris and return to his legal wife and son. Princess Helene lives only for her child, and is highly respected by the whole people. . . .
"If Carol follows my advice and assures my support the succession question can be easily solved. Otherwise disagreeable incidents are possible."
Magda Lupescu, "the woman with whom he [Carol] lives" in Paris (TIME, March 22) was declared by the Parisian press last week to have every expectation of shortly increasing the number of his illegitimate children, of whom the most notable is the son of Mme. Zizi Lambrino, his one-time morganatic wife. Her suit to establish the legitimacy of her son (TIME, Nov. 29) was thrown out of court last week, in Paris, the judge considering that only Rumanian courts are competent to adjudicate the matter.
—The Major-domos, Hausmeier, or Mayors of the Palace to the early Frankish kings gradually assumed more and more power until Charles Martel (grandfather of Charlemagne) technically a mere Hausmeier, completely eclipsed his king, Childeric III, whom no one remembers.