STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2051, sig. 109-7/58

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140a to Austria and Russia. Trade agreements were given because Austria had demanded the attack on Serbia and newer credit institutions. Shock squads. The king had to comply. . to revive the freight traffic. He has seen the homeland of his birth, Deutsehland, in Princess Elizabeth of Wied, with whom still victorious on all fronts, when he married Iim Dk. Prince Carol in 1869, the state received at the tober 1914 after a blessed life, 75 years old. under the Danube a zealous mediator of German culture closed his caring eyes forever. Ldn and at the same time a poet, who under the name Car- His only child, Princess Marie, had died in Sylva the European spiritual life with the soul age of four years. It therefore became familiar from Romania. The line of the elder brother of the Hohenzollern family At a time when Serbia was still entirely chosen under that of King Carol and defsen the second oldest Russian fuchttel, Bulgaria in the shadow of the son, Prince Ferdinand, was destined to succeed. In the first decade, the Romanian dynasty entered into a close relationship with the Princess Mary of Edin- principality of Romania through its defsen marriage to the English throne. The Queen Victoria. He was able to see. The grandmother of the Crown Princess was very proud of his work, and after that he sent him back in 1869 to the czar Allerander II to Queen Mary and the emperor Franz Joseph. King Ferdinand had studied in Leipzig and Die. Raising to the great free state between Bonn in Potsdam his military training he caused Dnjestr and Danube to hold the Parliament in 1881 and at that time enjoyed customary princely education. To proclaim Romania as a kingdom and to his He was a shy nature, inhibited in the Ulmgang, but to hand over Prince Carol a Turkish crown conquered from the bronze in his closed Jrner full of guarded portions. 1885 took, educated and a competent efficacious. The Catholic-Orthodore Romania has also achieved his full war activities against the Central Powers deeply ecclesiastical independence. and he has abdicated and until the end of the war as "Romania wanted to live with the election of King Carol Privatmann in Austria. drew the big lot", has a Romanian state. But then he nevertheless the influence of his Mi. By his own example, by nister and the hopeful nönigin for the Entente had succumbed untiringly to suc- cess and substantial promotion, and the declaration of war on Austria was made out of the rich natural treasures of the country, he first developed the defeat of his ßer prosperity. "When Prince Carol, 27 years old, had to endure the army and flee to Jassy. But called to the throne of Romania, he came to Bucharest from this suffering after the final victory of his Ver., he was there, on slippery ground, surrounded by allies as the first king of Greater Romania in the naughty intrigues. Beautiful women entered for history. his favor, and in the most varied form the When King Ferdinand I died on July 20, 1927, Neze was cast out after him. But he recognized first of all the immature son Michael of the dethroned nem sharp glance all the traps which were laid to him, heir to the throne Carol proclaimed to be nobility and that and he preserved his moral purity. Only by taking care of the country to a regency council was it possible for him to gain the authority. Ferdinand's son Carol, however, returned and secured whose he returned to Romania in the summer of 1930 when he carried out the by him. This was the second Carol from the Hohenzollernhaus, the country in which the administrative bodies, the political parties with the English royal house and the social conditions were so averted by his mother, offered the proud construction of Karl von Hohenzollen- an extremely bleak image, as at that time in Rumä- Sigmaringen completely destroyed. " (Kutschbach.) All visitors to the king's rule won order and bribery- Carol repeatedly boasted his great simplicity the Dberhand in Romania. Thus, Romania and modesty. became a hoard of unfair shops and dark poli- When the world war broke out, has Russian and French machinations. It is no wonder that the Zösisches money offered everything, Romania into which this king soon became the favour of England, the strange double team of these allied empires has let him countenance for his political plans. Brittle screamers demanded war. After the state rudder in Romania jetzt erklärung an Österreich-Ulngarn. They even had been knocked over, the English were sacked and sent to the Queen. Carol wanted the country with Germany and Jews, in which they did not allow any of their greasy Austria contracts to enter into force. More could be done, because Romania jett im Der Kronrat, however, did not consider the obligation of alliance to be a circle of draughtsmen of the Empire. gredi uad rogol Selbstverlag der fy-Sitekommandantur Prag. - Head: Harke Harksen. — Frequency of publication irregular. Print: Deutsche Druckerei, Prag XII., Schwerinstraße 3.