Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-08

is Job ike any other. and q country
wants to feel, must feel, that its chief
executive can command respect and Is
entitled to that respect.
Gossip of the kind that has been
disseminated can only undermine con-
fidence and impair credit. 1t can only
handicap me in my effort to encourage
the investment Of foreign capital in
Rumania."
The King alluded here. I knew. to
q deal made with the International
Telephone e. Telegraph Co and to one
pending with the Electric Bond &
Share Co.
1T means a great deal. more than
a mere business community of inter-
est" he went on enthusiastically "A
satisfactory business association does
more to promote arnity and under
standing than all the good will am
bassadors and Illuminated resolutions
put together"
And you believe such a bond can
be established even though we are
separated by thousands of miles?' l
inquired.
"People who live next door to each
other all their lives often have no
grasp of each others problems, he OBJ
served. Il may be wrong. but I have
an idea the fellow at the other end
Oh GIlG WI III SJdlidH dS SbOO a NAAhAA~C
of understanding hts fellow man as
anybody has.
Fond of Melodies.
"Of course 1 admit there are differ
ences in temperament our ped
pie. for instance" he pointed out
smilingly, would never tolerate such
infringement of personal liberty as
YOUR prohibition. AS a matter OF fact.
/ must confess that the piece of legis-
lation you call the Volstead act is
mystery to me.
But superficial differences in pa
ture Notwithstanding. we are all just
human beings with the same hopes ana
the same aims a little differ
emily expressed perhaps. but with few
basic differences. To one of us music
may mean gypsy melody to another
a iaZz tune. But it is all music, isn't II?
"And how good your music is, he
went on, suddenly very young. "Gersfl-
wins Rhapsody in Blue / find par
ticularly good, not only unsteady, but
because Gershwin seems to have cap
tured something typically American"
/ wondered at the Kings reaction to
Gershwins later effort. AN American
in Paris" but he had not heard it.
This did not surprise me. as had been
told by some of his closest friends that
in the psriod since he mounted the
throne he has neither accepted any So
cial engagements nor offered any.
His waking hours, he feels, belong to
his country, and until conditions within
its boundaries improve he intends TO
spend his energy only in that direction.
This gesture, I feel, contains less OF
the altruistic than Of sound business
judgment. 1t is the badge the King
wears in testimony of his determination
to make good, and he is bound he will
show the world he can. 1t is the out
ward indication of good faith given by
the same desperately earnest young
man who told me earlier: "A country
should BE- run like business. for, after
all, economics make politics, politics do
not make economies
Feels Need of Privacy.
AS my audience with the King nesred
its close, he returned for moment to
his personal trials and perplexities, and
exclaimed:
What must it be like to know little
genuine privacy"
The fervor of his remark led nes to
say he almost made me believe that the
post who said uneasy lies the head
that wears the crown" must have known
what he was talking about.
He did, King Carol confiAed as I
rose to go, "and the years that have in
tervened since that observation was
made haven't sirnplified life any"
I started for the door in the tradi-
tionally prescribed manner only to find
that the King was walking all the way
with me, wishing me happy journey
and expressing the hope that might
one day return. He was quite. as Prof
Jorga had said, like an American boy
but a very nice American boy!"
Miss Leighton flew from Paris to
Bucharest to get this interview. None
was mere surprised than herself, she
said. when King Carol discussed his
separation from the Princess Helen with
such candor.
II was specifically advised by every
one attached to the Rumanian govern
ment and the court" Miss Leighton
added, to avoid in my conversation
with the King the subject of his mar
rage and any discussion of various cpl
sodes in which he has figured.
They felt sure that unless I adopted
this plan King Carol would arise at the
first mention of such topics, after which
should have no alternative but to
bow my way out They were amazed al
the result, and cannot yet understand
how it happened"
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