Peace in the Palace

Until last week Rumania's Parliament had a handsome speaker's rostrum. After three weeks of howling insults, fist fights, hurling inkpots--all caused by Rumania's Skoda munitions scandal and the suicide of General Zika Popescu (TIME, April 10)--the rostrum was reduced to a blasted stump of kindling wood last week. The public was still in the dark on just who had bribed whom, just how much money Czechoslovak munitions tycoons had paid to win their $90,000,000 contract, and what had become of the money.

Meanwhile the purest peace reigned in the palace of King Carol. No voice had risen to connect him in any way with the Skoda scandal, and his slack-chinned younger brother Prince Nicholas suddenly decided that a year and a half of morganatic marriage with svelte Jana Lucia Deletz was enough (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931,). Following the promptings of Queen Mother Marie he cast Jana aside last week, made peace with King Carol, arranged to return to Bucharest, resume his royal rank.

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