Show EUROPE TURNS ITS EYES UPON RUMANIA NOW Almost Anything Can Happen With Dic Dictator Dic- Dic Dictator tat or Dead By Dy WILLIAM Copyright 1927 Consolidated ted Press Association J PARIS Nov 26 Ionel 26 lonel sudden cudden In Bucharest marks a dynastic crisis more serious than that accompanying King Ferdinands Ferdinand's death deatha a few months ago For the real ruling rul rul- ruling ruling ing family in Rumania for the past half century has been the not the whom Ionel's father ather the Rumanian Bismarck placed on tho the throne and who have remained little more than puppets in Inthe inthe the he hands of the powerful land own- own owning In ing ng bank owning Although the succession momentarily ly passes to the dead premiers premier's broth broth- brother er there Is little confidence h In n European chancellors that can govern with the same velvet elvet gloved hand of iron that distinguished the clever er dictator who ho has Just passed away BLUNDERS SUPPRESSED Paris newspapers vie with each oth oth- other other other er In eulogies of Ionel lonel and recall particularly how he brought Rumania Into the war on the side of the allies in in- 1916 They neglect to mention that during the two years previous kept the allies on the he anxious seat and finally agreed to o Intervene only en given the full full- fullest fullest fullest est guarantees as to financial assist assist- assistance assistance ance and territorial rewards Finally the financial aid was so ill employed that Rumania's army went into battle unequipped and was effaced by the German offensive e In a few weeks Eight hundred thousand casualties re resulted re- re resulted resulted and the net result Instead of helping the allies was to make Ger Ger- Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's many's task on the eastern front far simpler It was overlooked also that Ru Ru- Rumania Rumania mania manla has not only neglected to make any settlement whatever of her war wa debts to France but that even her war pre-war debts amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars are arc In abeyance causing heavy losses to French In In- In investors estors DANGER DANCER POINT Rumania emerged from the war with immense additional territory gained at the expense of Russia and Hungary Neither of the latter coun coun- countries countries countries tries has relinquished its Ils claim to these and they constitute the Balkans' Balkans worst danger points in inthe Inthe inthe the event of international trouble in Rumania Should Premier death en encourage en- en encourage encourage courage the party to at attempt at- at attempt attempt tempt to restore Prince Carol to the throne civil cl war Is almost certain to follow fonow and In hi that event a Russian effort to regain Bessa bla is a cal cal- calculable calculable calculable probability Even en apart from such dire possibilities possibilities possibilities however there is the fact that Rumania's credit is seriously im- im impaired Im Im- Impaired Impaired paired by the unrest existing in that country which only the astute lonel Ionel seemed emed qualified to quell For several years Rumania has been working steadily toward negotiation of needed loans loons in the London mar mar- market market ket For these loans to succeed American capital was to be supplied Indirectly Today with Ionel lonel gone the negotiations are inevitably sus sus- suspended suspended and the chances of obtaining foreign money to aid in the stabilization tion Uon of the tottering Rumanian re regime re- re regime regime gime seems remote |