Show S The Stakes Are High j King Carol i-aroi i Is is Playing Tough Political Poker roKer Editors Editor's note The tory story of RumanIa's Rumania troubles reveals lUng Hing Carol at his best beat It Is written below for the special news service service lerv- lerv ice of the Associated Press by Its Daniel De Dc Luce whose graphic stories durIng lurIng Germanys Germany's conquest of Poland attracted wide nation attention Since then De Luce has been In the Del Bal al- al kans By y DANIEL DE LUCE BUCHAREST Up against the toughest political poker game of his career King Carol II plays his cards card close to his gold-braided gold s 5 silver silver- I 11 1 v e r chest The stakes are high Rumania's independence and territory The kings king's own Job The other players are masters Stalin of Moscow Hitler of Berlin and Mussolini of Rome Yet Carol the little fellow In the game Is Js at his nervy best when the risks are greatest And the final hand has yet yetto yetto yetto to be dealt Luck Turned Bad ad After 10 years of a winning streak which began when he flew back from exile to gain the throne in 1930 the luck of the draw went against Carol Sigmaringen late In June Behind the white stone facade of his palace on the king who was once once a princely prince prince- ly playboy received the drastic terms of a soviet Russian ulti ulU- Moscow's was for Bes Bes- sarabia and northern about 20 per cent of Rumania's land and people Soviet tanks planes and troops massed for tor a giant push Resistance meant fighting alone leaving other frontiers undefended To give in might mean keepIng keeping keeping keep keep- ing the rest of Rumania intact for a better day Surrender Only Course So by July 3 a great belt of territory from the mouth of the Danube to the northeast flanks of ot the Carpathian mountains mountains mountains moun moun- was swallowed by the U U. 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R Such a national disaster might have wrecked another dynasty The king fired the cabinet and chose a different set of ministers ministers minis minis- tars with pro nazi opinions He kept the army mobilized and locked up the most dangerous radicals of both the right and left Furious Jewish anti feeling threatened to explode In the old kingdoms cities The fanatical fanatical fanatical cal iron guard although split into factions clamored for complete complete com corn governmental control While Rumania seethed internally internally inter inter- nally bruised and angry over the Russian squeeze play Hungary's Hungary's Hungary's Hun Hun- garys gary's campaign for the return of Transylvania reached white heat and Bulgaria's chronic agitation agitation agitation agi agi- agi- agi tation for southern grew more bitter Then Hitler Stepped In Then Germany ermany stepped into the middle of the discord calling to conference Hungary's premier and foreign minister and later Rumania's and Bulgaria's too At a time when he needed it most King Carol obviously looked to Adolf Hitler to grant him a breathing spell spell spell-If If nothing more more Hitler told the Balkans to settle their troubles soon or he would step in to do the job Government underlings speak in Jn appreciative whispers ol of the big boy but rarely mention Carol by name Enemies accuse him of ot many mistakes in the past but the more honest concede concede concede con con- cede that Carol turned a good share of these mistakes to his ultimate advantage Could another man have saved Most R Jr Russia u s s i j doubt it a The energetic year old burning the lights past In his palace study never show show- faint taint heart heart- Turned to Germany I The Iron guards wanted to to b come the government Very we Carol gave them just four tour o 0 of 18 Important posts Germ Germai J was the No 1 power In Eur The fhe king pulled Rumania out the League of Nations pled pledges es of the ex allies vee veer his foreign policy to j J Juliu old time peas party leader was sas making The king summoned him to i audience lectured him sharp shaft on the misfortunes that inner inners inner's p squabbling had bro g Rumania told him a new dla state was being creat crest wherein youth could realized realize r highest ambitions Youth ai J discipline would be Your majesty said ald den dem cratic Mantu dissenting You Yo is 15 with us j That was Manlus opinion T r 1 king however could point more than uniform boys and girls enrolled In Jn 1 national service legion Sir SIn Taril j Continued Palace lalace Project t tIn J JIn In Carols Carol's confidence In h hi self and his country there h t been something contagious tt U helped to steady the volatile P It manian temperament when strain was most severe He flea j to it that construction of D t sumptuous left wing of this p II pace ace the showplace of Buch rf went on on-In on In the midst of ot gene gen en mobilization and air raid drill Whatever the cost servers say the palace has d Jc bolstered public morale moral Not generally known fact that Carols Carol's private torl fot suffered when the seized He oW own shares in a big sugar comP which had plants and 1500 cars of its refined product In U area Still the king Is isman ar arman nl man personally with Ind r interests that extend to oU oil parts of ot the globe 1 Does Docs he really realty relish his ca ea and worries this a world the who to rule the most tem tempestuous l t a endangered of Balkan lands Is tense and exhausting But wo But every rein rem of leads to his hand And asso KU J say he lie likes it No up Let-up for tor Carol 1 I There Is Ls virtually no but between the king and re P r. r S for the acts of his hla niTh A type fascist-type approved in a plebiscite in gave Carol dictatorial power The year 1940 has been o one reckoning for lor states made g gr r rby by peace dictates after the Wo WJ war and among the moat io t V is Rumania J II Theres There's little opportunity to shove departmental de aside for lor a bit of his anus amiul ll hobby of designing forms or to go hunting o oj mountain estates or to relax the seashore 11 Theres There's no up let-up for Car CarThe CarThe CarThe The stakes are too high I |