Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-07
FOLLOWERS OF CAROL REPORTED
READY FOR COUP TO GET TF1R ONE
Plan for Restoration Includes Elevation of
Nine. Lupescu to Nobility and Subse-
quent Marriage to Prince.
~ Radio to Tbs Star and New York

~ Radio to Tbs Star and New York World.
PARIS, August 6.--Mme. Lupescu,
golden-haired Jewish companion of
Prince Carol of Rumania, is reported
willing to renOunce Judaism and
accompany him back to Bucharest to
claim the throne of Rumania. Carol
has insisted that he will never return
to his native land unless Nine.
Lupescu Is allowed to come with him
Although he has repudiated his
three separate renunciations to the
succession right in Rumania, Carol
has been in daily conferences with
ENJOYS from Rumania, who have tried
to persuade him to return and save
the country from chaos. His friends
in Paris are certain that if Carol waits
another month, Premier Bratiano him
self will come to Paris to ask him to
return.
So far the ENJOYS have been unoffi-
cial, secret representatives of the
Carol party, mostly young army Off
GERS who served with Carol against
the Russian armies in 1916. Carol,
who styles himself King CAROL since
his fathers death, favors a conference
with Queen Marie; his brother, Prince
Nicholas, and other members of the
regency.
Coup Is RumOred.
IF conferences fail to reach a har-
mOnious and peaceful result, Carol is
said to have planned an airplane dash
to locality near Bucharest to join
infantry and artillery regiments that
are willing and eager to march under
his command to wrest control of Ru-
mania from the hand of the Queen
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the Orthodox church, who constitute
the executive committee of the re-
gency.
The airpane has been waiting In
Switzerland for several weeks Some
OF his military friends urged Carol to
attempt a coup sometime ago, even
before the death Of his father, as
surfing him that the largest part of
the army would gladly follow him.
Ihat the new government in Ru-
mania fears detection among the
troops Is evidenced by the fact that
several of the "Carolist" regiments,
that is to say units whose officers
favor a recall of Prince Carol, have
been confined to their barracks ever
since the death Of the King, while
other doubtful battalions have been
sent off for extensive maneuvers in the
mountains OF Pennsylvania.
Conferences in the villa of Neuilly,
where Carol has lived in semi-seclu-
sion since the day when he deserted
his lawful wife, Princess Helena, have
been in progress daily from the mo-
ment when news of the death of King
Ferdinand reached here. Carol Is de-
termined that Nine. Lupescu shall &C.
company him. AS she has indicated
her Willingness to stake her all on an
expedition, the outcome of which may
be full of dangers and hazards. 1t is
felt that Carol intends to elevate the
Jewish girl to the nobility as soon as
he RECEIVERS the throne and divorces
Princess Helena, after which he will
marry Nine. Lupescu and crown her
Queen of Rumania.
Without a change OF faith, the ac-
cession to the throne of Nine Lupescu
would be impossible. The constitution
of Rumania provides that the mon.
arch shall be member of the ortho.
dox church. But even il this were
not so, a Jewish Queen of Rumania
would be unpopular with the aristoc-
race and the Natienalists. who are