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May 25, 1940.
KING CAROL'S BIG
PROBLEM
SWIFTLY and dramatically the European war scène may shift to the Balkanaand for the first time in several decades the fate and, perhaph, the future of troubled Europe hangs on a royal thread-the blue and robust blood of a Hohenzollern.
So much now depends on Carol: doing it very successfully when whether he is clever enough to out- Queen Marie announced that she was wit the land-grabbers, whether ho tired of her tour. It may have been that elections were is willing to plunge the world.deeper a concidence into the hell of war, to save. his re- about to be held.
Carol know his mother, and he liglon, his country, and his throne.
who acted without hesitation. Carol As a member of his family knows him well I feel the answer hung in the balance; Marie might will be "Yes" to both these ques- throw the election to her supporters
and against his candidates,
The whole history of the Balkans Queen Mario's train, complete with has been series of mistakes," he kitchens, beauty parlours, hospital. doctors, and a number of atten- sald to me on my last visit to car Rumania. "We cannot survive any dents, was in Italy. So Carol on- nounced that the visit of the Queen more of them." Above all
ll else, it is Carol's inten. Mother of Rumania to such a friendly neighbour required a larger entour- tion to survive.
was sending He is capable, and he is willing age. Accordingly he
outside her a dozen officers in for the He cares nothing
super-mau His ar ficent assorted uniforms. For nearly world; only for Rumania.
months mor
these unwelcome rogance is not so much from pride three
kept her from leaving It is pride of position. of birth.
been is
een won by Carol. man. He may be King
Carol has not his mother's syn ing by the grace of God, but the kingdom is of Carol's own fashioning, pathelle appeal from the humouistic private life point of view. However, he knows decades his garlsh
From the Pit-made point of view mener
Carol
For
a
the election had
has filled the front pages, while his. hla job thoroughly, and it will takes
re that, rather than charm and goodd solid public achievements have mained almost unnoticed,
intentions, to win the game which
Carol has been pictured as an in- Carol has to play ternational playboy. He has never that confront
against the forces
been anything of the sort. I am not He has u-tremendous responsibility
trying to whitewash his character to the world which waits upon the for chromium steel-does-not-take-fearful chance of his success. But it whitewash and Carol is more nearly is not toward the world that Carol feels feels responsibility. He only a steel, man than is Stalin,
that to Rumanía, and to himself ne the symbol of Rumania.
*
TU pred "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the Hongkong Telograph” to
THERE is only one simple thing indicate nows which la strictly copyrigh under the provisions of the Telecommunk about Carol. That is his inflexible extions Ordinance, 1938. Such new resolve. Everything he has done is bears the indication “Up" le received is Hongkong on the date of publication by the result of that the United Press Associations, where serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous
ATTAN CIRROG
Complacency
*
He intends to get ONCE, when we were driving from his castle at Sinaia to Bucarest, what he wants, all he wants, when a group of "Strageri"-members of how, ond under the exact conditions the Rumanian Youth Movement he desires; and his only real passion saluted him from the roadside. His is the continued existence of an in- whole being seemed to become eler- dependent Rumania.
irle with excitement.
He wanted Rumania for his own. "You see," he said, "those young- He wanted it without the political sters are, the spirit of the new Rumania. It is the same from the dynasty of the Bratianu family of
The Archduke Franz Josef, author of this article, is brother-in- law of King Carol's sister, Princess Ile- ana, Archduchess Anton of Habsburg.
between him and his ultimato inten- tions for Rumania.
TIS sister Heana, who married, my 1 brother Anton, deeply adores hor native land. She wanted her first child to be born there, and so iny brother flew her to Balcic un the Black Sea.
Castle
But Carol had suspicionsctly what, no one ever know, but evident- ly quite enough to make him deter- to complicate the dynastic succession mined that no archduke was going to his throne by being born within
to whom he had been married for I realised he meant that statement Hons in unexploited, minerals leave Balcle that:
He has Michael, and
in
pro-
Against the Empires of Britain
Queen Marie's choice. He wanted it Dniester to the Tisza rivers--the ripe to bursting. From the Dniester and France in particular, and the without even Queen Marie. He got unity of my people. Our boundaries to the Danube, and from the Black world in general, the hordes of it.
He wanted his son, Michael, but he are traced in blood. They will not Sea to the Ilungarian Plain, I have, the borders of his kingdom.
be altered by anything less than a marvelled at its richness. Wheat, So he scat a Cabinet Minister with tyranny and oppression have been
didn't want Michael's mother, Helen, world cataclysmit
corn, vineyards, oil wells, and bil- the outrageous message to Ileana at "Her Imperial Highness let loose, and some half a dozen tres
the could find some of the finest mater- the reason no question as to nations have already been trampled State reasons,
ils most bitter truth.
world-in On one side he saw the dangers hungry northern nations want this nity hospitals in the under the feel of Hitlerism, the Princess Helen returned to Greece,
for land.
Vienna,
Ileana left. However, she is not master mial of which aims at nothing later moving to Italy,
I doubt that even Chroi hinsett He wanted Magada Lupescu, the of Dolshevist Russia, Biavering short of world
domination. Rumanian beauty whom he had not the return of its Bessarablan Great Britain, countless warning at a ball. He has her-but only as vince which Queen Marie brought to can be sure of wint agreements have without some of Carol's inflexibility,
Rumania from Versailles.
been made, behind hits back, about and her son, the Archduke Stefan, If keeping her have been issued to the people on
a private mälter.
was born on Rumanian ground. She On the other side was Germany, his country. No one in Europe to-
of carth the extrome gravity of the situation, ever confllets with keeping Rumania, It has been clearly and gravely in- Make no mistake, Madang peseus ready to back Hungarian demands day can be sure what any of his arranged for a quantity
for rich Transylvania, another bit righbours are promising or saying from Balele to be spread on the floor will go.
of Marie's Versailles booty.
There are no longer any international and under the bed in her room br dicaled by Mr. Churchill and other
Carol rules Rumania, and he rules Bulgaria, too, was looking longingly niceties. It is survival of the fittest; her Austrian castle, and the fact was
attested to expect
by the attending Government spokesmen-enen wis alone, Rumanians are a deeply re-
ministers, physicians,
State see behind the scenes that suffering glous people and Carol is the head at her lost lands of Dobrudja, that and only the hardlest san
of the Church; moreover, he is the fertile triangle on the shores of the to survive.
Black
black Sen, also a Versailles bargain. Carol has every right to be among omciols on Ittic Stefan's birth certi- and hardship may be experienced
Beate. before Germany is crushed. This active head. He has not, as did the
This was not just an act of petty aspect has ngain been emphasised Inter Russian czars, delegated his item
authority to a Holy Synod, which
his mouths of the Danube River main-sonal monarchy, and he has proved this week in the pussing within a might conspire against both trade artery of Central Europe. I up to now that system is the only tyranny, small and despotic though for Rumania, His it may appear. It is simply one of Bessarabia should be seized by successful couple of hours of an Act unprece people and himself.
government paraphrases an endless number of like incidents, theory of
that told loves uniforms, Russia, then the
only. Carol is
Bolshevist Soviet
here because it proves the old proverb: "There
Carol will not hesitate to use his dented in the history of the Country.
shining sabres, clanking spurs, glit- State would control the northern
peasants, the King, and God." Every penny and every ounce of H
tering decorations. gold braid, hel roth, called the Chilla Chunnel.
He tolerates the nobility, but he iron glove even on his own family human energy has been conscripted mets with feathers. Naturally,
neither trusts the nobles nor depends when he believes the interests of his
country are ever so remotely, threa in the service of the State. It speaks After all, he is a Hohenzollern, and volumes for the determination of the every Hohenzollern who ever breath-
O long as the two dictatorships are upon their support.
Any attempt, even unintentional, tened.
on whom thus diametrically opposed on
This is the man element between people to sice the thing through that, ed loved all military display.
Buland this is the important
the peasants, the King, and God meets European spotlight is now focussed; ulthough heavily overburdened with thing to know--Rumanians like unt this point Carol's task is not impos- to thrust another taxation, they have willingly forms and glitter, too. Early in his sib Carol's business and financial his immediate and severest oppost and whatever may be the outcome, personal his appearance in it will be plețure- cepted the call for the very maximum carcer Carol found that magnificent triumphs have added to his political ilon. He permits neither of sacrifice. They are giving - uniforms and a number of sparkling
vain.
Не
Burmania now
☆
three holds the
those who do. He believes in per
one
ure
sparingly of life, energy and money were udent to flatter, dangers. Rumonia is a plum that is hardship nor family affection to stand sque-pertops berDİR.
The great Dominions of Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. public,
and politicians alike. In
It amused the which
general
ornamental]
enjoyed a continual
and other parts of the Empire are daily parade of doing likewise, throwing the whole gentlemen bustling to and fro all weight of their resources into the condict.
The question may well be asked
OVE
and,
BEHIND THE HEADLINES-by JOHN BLUNT.
Grave as the
the
or
this connection the Press the country on Carol's errands. These notes are written at randomly by the civilian as they are being people into thinking that all is well,. responsibility.. great shoulders the faced in reality by the gallant Forces and in The same gentlemen raight, per-
Every man in this Colony should in some sombre clothing have during the week--just when
If when they are read of the Allies. gathered privately to plot against spirit moves.
materially news must be at face the issue squarely and do his
utmost physically,
eat Cause of is Hongkong really doing her share? him. Cost of the uniforms and gew-they appear to be out of date, tie
morally, to perve the
Breat Mr. Churchill has warned the nation saws is negligible compared to the times, and not the writer must bear against the dancer of complacency: result, which is spectacular in every the blame. I have been ruminating times, there is neither justification on
on the vast difference there would be nor reason for despondency. I speak hin Country. I am sure that we
but as one who saw and served in France, have faith in the ultimate issue, but Bense, Something more than the knitting By his own decision Carol made in the world to-day could we Flanders and Belgium, from New for goodness sake, don't try to look of socks and other garments is re- his dramatic airplane flight W. R. LOXLEY & Co., (China) Ltd. quired at the Colony, is to pull its ens donale a lame off from um back the clock to the cases, Year's Day 1917 through to the the other way when blows are being
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weight In the colossal struggle now in progress, Ours is indeed a com- placent community, so much so that some people even doubt the veracity
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1.
and
Remember Plugstrect Messines. ship. The breathlessness,
registered against us. Passchendale and the great that it is the last punch that counts. from his young son, Michael.
lism and the contradic-/Armistice.
Germans Queen Marie, Carol's mother, had tons of the present age would vanish.
tions of
through by the
Maybe 1918, when they were stopped To change the subject. handed for many years.
were managed Ramanis almost single- My present vein of thought is born March 1
live in a generation of the past, discussion concerning the of a One of the most beautiful as well quitable conflict. opinions expressed outside Amiens
when count- one of the most intelligent women quarent let of ortus, vente toments-yes, months of gravity and the glamour of the "Sawdust King
devastation. Moments
still appeals to me. How well of the news and try to delude them- as one time. granddaughter of the Europe are known in every quarter thousands of men were sacrificed member the days of Barner's selves that there is exaggeration.} ut
Balley's, or "Lord John Queen Vicuria of England, of the globe within a few minutes of to the god of Mars. In those days
the The Colony must apply itself for more great
Marie Was violently pro-British. teir happening.
cataclysmic horror there was no sign circus. First of all there was
steeled... themselves colourful
through the earnestly if it wishes to take its Unaided, she brought Rumania 'Inte
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of panic. Men
sirect b
Indies mounted stand alongalde other Colorles. the first World War on the Allied There is far too much dodging of the side, in
of her husband's The inevitability of confusion is against showing any sign of fear, not In spite
admited by the Allied Commands, matter what their innermost feelings on plebaid chargers. The band; the cages of wild animals, the elephants real issue, and far too many people Hohenzollern, blood.
trunka extended to the crowd for selecting their own niche. It would] Almost unaided, she came away The public has been warned time They joked and died,
They were not worried about the buns and other offerings. And then. be interesting to know the proportion from the treaty tables at Versailles and lime again during the last few
with ..those
rich territories that weeks that the position is at times
news, for they were the news! To the worrying until we found
the great tent. A varie- of key and essential post groups in Itussia, Hungary, and Bulgaria now obscuro. Evening out the t relation to those who are training in want back defensive work. The latter is un- Moric was a strong-character, and is surely advantageous to know the and I can almost Imagine the shodes ty was
ап effort is made to doubtedly the most important, and let the had entrenched her power with trend of events as they occur, for of the mighty multitude arising from West Show-with the "seven rings in
SI there be no mistake about it. While Cabinet and Prime Minister loyal with such knowledge we are able to the fields of France, Flanders and action at once" and the final-Prairie to herself during Lie brief reign of busess the possible reactions in our Belgium proudly welcoming them as dis- they join the ranks of their fathers.
Such there may be no call for defensive her grandson, Michael.
The Prime own particular sphere. The work in reality in this Colony, every Minister, Bratianu, was an old-style cussion to which I have referred Grim thought. It does however dust Ring-glamour and all. tyvailable man should be trained to politician, who know how to control bbve dealt with, the presentation of serve to convince me, as nothing else were my thoughts the other evening.
antics. take the place of the Regular Forces elections but had no understanding of news by the newspapers It was can, that in reverse or victory, the when I lost myself in reverie who might be needed elsewhere, the part industry and economics play felt that a toning down was desirable, soldiers of Britain and France will enjoyed seeing the elephants
I suggest that the answer lies in swerve not from their determination forming their ludicrous ho rapidity with which news is dis- to conquer. " Quite a number of those holding key in modern government. /
tributed and in the eMciency and positions, or not aside for essential
competion of
some
our
difficulty in sorting out the facts. It any, they are. doing the same thing, selver insinal" Bill Cody's una
service work, have nothing to do'at THEN Carol came from exulc. gencies.
the vatious nows
to Bilmour of the "a
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por
The
acrobats, performing wild animals, clown A thought for the precarious They will wish us to know the existence of the troupe. A good worst, and be proud when they know show, If we could live agala in wo are hearing the best, for it is only those inconsequential days when the
the moment, and many of them ' *
He wanted to, build his should be undergoing military train- Government on a good sound bust- ing against any emergency, ! ness policy, and above all a polley The public has been educated to by knowing the worst that British word "Blase" was hardly understood, the week, German living Even cooks and batmen carry orms, directed and controlled entirely by kok for speed in the dissemination people steel themselves to put for how much happier we all should be.
bewail the news as some, people do In this British Colony, who had falled and are trained in the use of such, himmelf; 50 be
tour would the world's greatest catastrophe, bev * be delightful for his mother to world's greatest news and is it tho now when my reports Police, as toured In resential services of the army. Better He arranged all the details, kissed must of its varying nature stir overy take stock of ourselves now, rather her good-bye, at the station, and went inde of emotion from grave anxiety publish unpleasant, reading, me accordance with local Regulations, than carry on as a very complacent back to clean out her men from his to joyous elallen.
Along will be the Judge In the was fined five dollars
little-Colony.......
palace and his Alibistries. He was Facts must be faced just as square meantime it would be folly to dehude papers pidued copy,
although, they ""may," "de stermed "thy that a pica Jong Promptly -- Suggested of news, itahust be"-obvious that, ward of their best. It is useless to!
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