RUMANIA: Carol's Five-Year Plan

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Wearily in Paris last week General Condescu, representing King Carol II, went the rounds of His Majesty's former mistresses, his former wife Queen Helen, and Prince Nicholas, the King's brother from whom His Majesty is estranged. General Condescu attends to their various financial wants.

General Condescu said that to save money it might be necessary to install Prince Nicholas and his new commoner bride in the chateau at Belleme where Mistress Lupescu used to live. She is now believed to be in Bucharest with the King, though her presence the Rumanian Government half-heartedly denies.

"The soldiers of the Rumanian Army have not been paid for two months," said General Condescu morosely, "and the majority of the Government employes have not been paid for a year. Our country is faced with perhaps the gravest economic crisis in its history. King Carol is at present working night and day on an agricultural and industrial five-year production plan which he expects to complete before the end of the month."