The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-19
Great Britain Busy Wooing Once-ScOrned King Carol
Turn of European Political Wheel Enables PIaybOy To Make Comeback
BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Serxice Sfaff Corresnondent

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 London, Nov. 2O.-Eight years ago King Carol of Rumania was given the bums rush out of England. Now he has been invited to eat of King George WIS golden plate in Buck ingham Palace.
 That's the comeback King Car ol of Rumania has accomplished within the short space of eight years. In 1880 he was an exile who lost his heritage as a future mon- arch because of his mad affair with Mazda Lupescu.
 In 1898 he is king in his own name.
 In 1880 he was plotting to get his lost throne and for that reason the English chased him out. It was against the rule to plan against the peace of a country with whom; Britain was on friendly terms.
 In 1888 he is to be eagerly well comed to England because Rumania rather an important country now that Hitler has gobbled Austria and the Sudetenland and is looking with calculating eyes at the Balkan lands. For he wants make deal with Ru- mania so as to get her wheat and oil.
 The English statesmen hope that Carol is as willing to forgive by zones as they are anxious to forget them. When he comes with his son and heir, Crown Prince Michael, now strapping lad of IT, King Carol will be received with all the pomp and ceremony the English know how to display when they are out to capture guests fancy. His state visit is to last from November IS to November 18. He will be given sumptuous apartments in Bucking- ham Palace. He will be the honored guest at state dinner in that pal- ace, another at the Foreign Office and big City of London luncheon at the Guildhall. Then he will re- ciprocate with a state dinner in his turn at the new Rumanian Legation building in swank Belgrave Square, where not only will wine flow like water, but precious caviar will smear like margarine.
 If the proposed visit now comes of, it will be successful after three abortive attempts. His first official invitation for a state visit had to be called off, owing to the fatal ill., ness of King George V. The second time he was all set to come but England was not set to welcome him, because it was busy with the abdication of King Edward VIII. And third time, he packed his bags, but this time he called of the visit, because Hitler had grabbed Austria, giving the Rumanian King things to think about at home. If Carol has time to read any English papers now and compare them with what they wrote eight year ago, he will either swear or chuckle- according to his temper ament. Then he was given short shrift. He was practically told to "git." He "got". British press ref erences were not complimentary.
 But today!
 Yesterday, so to speak, these British said: Mai inainte"-"Get out
 Today they are getting ready to say: "Poftiti inauntru" = Come in"
 And the British press has dis covered that the 45-year-old mon- arch is brave and wise and cour- ageous. Also, being a Hohenzol- Tern, he is a ."natural-born ruler"
 Some of this is true. He may flout some of the Ten Command ments in his private life, but he has shown himself to be very shrewd hand at playing the kind of political poker necessary for success in Balkin country. Since he returned to his heritage on June 6, 1880, he has won the con- fidence of a considerable part of his subjects. He has thwarted military plots against himself. He has seen that his Nazi foe, c. Co., dreanu, is slowed away in prison for ten years. He has made min- istries feel his strong hand. And just to show that he is not afraid that things will blow up in his absence, he is coming to Lon- don and bringing his only son with him.
 European statesmen are begin- ming to realize that he is some thing more than royal playboy. He has been working hard at the king business.