The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-06

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 May that my country be protected by the God of our fathers and may he preserve for the country a glor- ious future. Vive Rumania! (Given at) Bucharest, Sept. 16, 1940. (SigneO Carol, R."
 The abdication was the culmina- tion of grabs of Rumanian land started two months ago by Russia, which took Bessarabia and North Bukovina provinces, continued by Hungary, now taking Upper Tran sylvania, and Bulgaria, negotiating for South Dobrudja. It also re- suited from Carols long feur with the pro-Nazi Iron Guard, which as- sassinated two of his premiers and saw hundreds of it's members slaugh- tered in retaliation, and in the guar antees that Rumania accepted from the Allies at the outbreak of the war. A few months ago, when the AL lies fortunes waned, Carol renounced the British guarantee and reorga- nized his government along totali- tartan lines, with himself the head of the only legal political party. But the reorganization won him little favor from the axis powers or with the pro-Nazi faction at home.
 Equally pressing was the Russian problem. Soviet troops have been re- ported massing on their new Bess- arabian frontier, with foothold at the mouth of the Danube, and a further westward march by Rls- sianS was feared.
 It was learned also that 800 Ger man trucks had passed through Timisora, in the Pennsylvania area ceded to Hungary, headed for Bess- arabia to evacuate the 80,0O0 Ger man nationals there to Galatz, from where they would be taken by boat up the Danube to Germany. The truck drivers wore Nazi military uni- forms.
 The last Hohenzollern on a Euro pean throne, Carol, playboy, dicta- tor and pawn in one of the worst eras of Balkan intrigue, signed his abdication papers at a. m. Q1 p. m. Thursday, EDT) after night of street rioting in which the pro-Nazi Iron Guard figured prominently.
 Michael, the former child king, who succeeded his grandfather King Ferdinand, in 1927 while Carol was living in Paris with his red-haired Jewish mistress, Mazda Lupescu, and who was succeeded by his father in a coup d'etat in 1930, will pre- | earUa +La TI0bop1olIarv, Tl1,Y, O efx, IT was evident, however, that he would have no voice in the government during the present crisis. News of the abdication was with held from RumanianS for hours. At 8 a. m. the Bucharest radio was still announcing: Attention! We will make an announcement of great im- portance shortly" Newspapers at that hour gave no hint that Carol had quit.
 In the palace at that time Michael, once the youngest king in Europe, the "poor little rich boy" who was envied by boys all over the world for his toys and pony stable and pitied for having no playmates, was being groomed for the throne again.
 He took the oath at 9:28 a. rn., in the throne room, before Nicodim, the Rumanian patriarch, Nicolae Lupu, Antonescu, minister of justice in the Carol cabinet, and the president of the supreme court. The oath he took was:
 T address myself to the Rumanian people. I accept the duty of becom- ing king of Rumania. In this l ask Gods help"
 Then, Antonescu took this oath before Nicodim:
 T pledge faith to King Michael. In this, God help me. God help King Michael and myself"