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CAROL II: (1893-1953) King of Romania 1930-40. An excellent collection of correspondence from King Carol II dating from the time he established a royal dictatorship in 1938, through his life in exile during World War II, and up until his death in Portugal in 1953. Also included are two letters from Magda Lupescu (1899-1977) Princess Elena of Romania, the mistress and later third wife of Carol II. All of the correspondence is addressed to the American publisher and literary agent H. Keith Thompson (1922-2002) and the collection further features a number of signed Christmas greetings cards from King Carol and Princess Elena, a large selection of postage stamps, photographs (a few signed) and negatives, as well as printed ephemera related to the KingThe collection is divided into several sections –A) CORRESPONDENCE(i) A.N.S., Carol R, to the verso of a picture postcard depicting Sevilla´s Andalucia Palace and Hotel Alfonso XIII, n.p. (Sevilla), n.d. (6th December 1940), to Harold Keith Thompson, sending thanks for Christmas and New Year greetings. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Carol II.(ii) Brief A.L.S., Carol R, to the verso of a colour picture postcard of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, n.p. (Havana), n.d. (9th June 1941), in full, ´Thank you for your kind welcome and good wishes on my arrival in Cuba´. Hand addressed by Carol II.(iii) Brief A.L.S., Carol R, to the verso of a picture postcard of the Student´s Memorial in Havana, n.p. (Havana), n.d. (2nd July 1941), in full, ´Thank you very much for the “first day issue” of the new U.S.A. 6 c air mail stamps´. Hand addressed by Carol II. (xv) an important and lengthy T.L.S., Carol R, four pages (separate leaves), 4to, Estoril, 6th September 1950, providing an interesting insight into the exiled King´s views of world politics prevailing at the time, and in particular in relation to Romania, stating, in part (spelling errors retained) ´As you say we are living again one of those anxious times…..the effective fight against invading comunism has began by the beautifull reply the U.S.A. gave to the Corean aggression. I also fear that it will be a long and strenious strugle which can only end by the final blasting up of the comunist stronghold of the U.R.S.S. What is going on now is only a periferical fight and we can logicaly expect more of these. But they are only prleminary crossing of swords and for this special plague to be done away with it must be uprooted by force. Force is the only thing the Soviets fear. The longer this cancer of comunism continues the worst it is for the entire mankind. News I get from Romania is too dreadfull for words. The tyranny and destruction there is not to be discribed. All the glorious past of my country is being sitematicaly destroyed to build up what? A system of terror, of hate, in which the individual is reduced to the worst kind of slavery evr known in history, and this by means of the most atrocious police system and by systematicaly killing all those who do not work with or for the new regime. Very few are the people I knew who are not either dead, either in prison, either deported to some remote part of Siberia. The horror of the state of affairs there is tha who is not murdered is being moraly and mentaly assasinated. More time passes more things get worse. The only hope of the people is in a war, it is the only way they see the possibility of liberation. That is the sad but real state of things. In none of the countries behind the Iron Curtain are conditions more heart wrenching than in Romania. My country is not a Slav one, we are Latins, it has during the ceturies of history been a constant barrier against the eastern barbarian expansion, therefore it must be destroyed as spirit and as nation. The hate against comunism and the enemy from the East is enormous, there are daily revolts of the peasants against the regime…..I´m certainly very interrested hearing of your intention of writing a study about the years of my reign….You asked me to what degree democracy existed during the constitutional monarchy? Well the answer is a simple one, Romania was a democratical country with every democratical forms, prlament elected by universal suffrage, women voting for the Senate, responsable governement, local elected bodies for municipal and provincial administrations. The most democratical person in the country was the King. All my efforts, as guardian of the constitution was to mantain the real democratical aplication of governement. My belief was that only relying on the people themselfs, especially on the peasants, which in the past, and in the present, are the sanest part of the population, real progress could be achieved. I constantly kept the closest contact with the people, I taveled, a lot, unofficialy about so that I was able to speak directly to the folk without intermediaries. It was a good way of knowing their thoughts and their wishes and controling the aplication of good and impartial administration. In Romania the King was considered, by the people as the supreme chief to whom they could aply directly for their needs big or small, they had faith in his spirit of justice. Many things were corected by this good and patriarhical form of democracy. One has talked about my dictatorship, is is a very false way of explaining the change of constitution in 1938. There was no dictatorship in Romania till Antonescu and the worst is that wich reigns now under the comand of Moscow. The change of constitution, keeping all the parlamentary forms, was caused by the necessity of reinforcing the executive power so as to fight with more possibilities against the extremist terrorist…..Hitler, thanks to the poicy of apeasement…..was incresing his force, Nazism was swamping the eastern world and his understanding with Stalin became a permenant danger for the country. I and my statesmen saw the danger, we cried it out aloud but were not listened to. You also ask me what I consider the most important achievement of my efforts towards social and economic improvements for the welfare of the people….What I believed in most was education; for a nation to progress on real democratical lines I believe that the people must be educated…..Two big institutions were created for this purpose the “Strala Tzerei” an organisation for practical and moral education of the youth using as a base the magnificent principles Baden Powel gave the Boy Scouts. It was a great succes and if I had been able to make it run 10 years a whole generation of children would have been brought up to be good and usefull citizens. The second was the “Social Service” an organisation for educating the peasants in a practical way…..the peasant is the sanest part of the population, to them went my greatest interest, and for their wellfare did I try and do the most…..You ask me also about my efforts on behalf of a Free Romanian movement. During the war the problem was to make the world understand the soul and the interests of Romanian people were on the side of those who were fighting for democracy and that one had to prepare happier day for them when peace came. But peace never came, certainly not for the poor suffering Romanians and to day this fight must be continued, for its success it is absolutely necessary that all Romanians, in free countries should be united in a common stive for the liberation of the Fatherland. Continualy my thoughts are planing what ought to be done, but that is another chapter of history´. OWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM THE VAST MAJORITY OF THIS DESCRIPTION CAN NOT BE SHOWN. PLEASE CONTACT IAA EUROPE DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
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CAROL II: (1893-1953) King of Romania 1930-40. An excellent collection of correspondence from King Carol II dating from the time he established a royal dictatorship in 1938, through his life in exile during World War II, and up until his death in Portugal in 1953. Also included are two letters from Magda Lupescu (1899-1977) Princess Elena of Romania, the mistress and later third wife of Carol II. All of the correspondence is addressed to the American publisher and literary agent H. Keith Thompson (1922-2002) and the collection further features a number of signed Christmas greetings cards from King Carol and Princess Elena, a large selection of postage stamps, photographs (a few signed) and negatives, as well as printed ephemera related to the KingThe collection is divided into several sections –A) CORRESPONDENCE(i) A.N.S., Carol R, to the verso of a picture postcard depicting Sevilla´s Andalucia Palace and Hotel Alfonso XIII, n.p. (Sevilla), n.d. (6th December 1940), to Harold Keith Thompson, sending thanks for Christmas and New Year greetings. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Carol II.(ii) Brief A.L.S., Carol R, to the verso of a colour picture postcard of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, n.p. (Havana), n.d. (9th June 1941), in full, ´Thank you for your kind welcome and good wishes on my arrival in Cuba´. Hand addressed by Carol II.(iii) Brief A.L.S., Carol R, to the verso of a picture postcard of the Student´s Memorial in Havana, n.p. (Havana), n.d. (2nd July 1941), in full, ´Thank you very much for the “first day issue” of the new U.S.A. 6 c air mail stamps´. Hand addressed by Carol II. (xv) an important and lengthy T.L.S., Carol R, four pages (separate leaves), 4to, Estoril, 6th September 1950, providing an interesting insight into the exiled King´s views of world politics prevailing at the time, and in particular in relation to Romania, stating, in part (spelling errors retained) ´As you say we are living again one of those anxious times…..the effective fight against invading comunism has began by the beautifull reply the U.S.A. gave to the Corean aggression. I also fear that it will be a long and strenious strugle which can only end by the final blasting up of the comunist stronghold of the U.R.S.S. What is going on now is only a periferical fight and we can logicaly expect more of these. But they are only prleminary crossing of swords and for this special plague to be done away with it must be uprooted by force. Force is the only thing the Soviets fear. The longer this cancer of comunism continues the worst it is for the entire mankind. News I get from Romania is too dreadfull for words. The tyranny and destruction there is not to be discribed. All the glorious past of my country is being sitematicaly destroyed to build up what? A system of terror, of hate, in which the individual is reduced to the worst kind of slavery evr known in history, and this by means of the most atrocious police system and by systematicaly killing all those who do not work with or for the new regime. Very few are the people I knew who are not either dead, either in prison, either deported to some remote part of Siberia. The horror of the state of affairs there is tha who is not murdered is being moraly and mentaly assasinated. More time passes more things get worse. The only hope of the people is in a war, it is the only way they see the possibility of liberation. That is the sad but real state of things. In none of the countries behind the Iron Curtain are conditions more heart wrenching than in Romania. My country is not a Slav one, we are Latins, it has during the ceturies of history been a constant barrier against the eastern barbarian expansion, therefore it must be destroyed as spirit and as nation. The hate against comunism and the enemy from the East is enormous, there are daily revolts of the peasants against the regime…..I´m certainly very interrested hearing of your intention of writing a study about the years of my reign….You asked me to what degree democracy existed during the constitutional monarchy? Well the answer is a simple one, Romania was a democratical country with every democratical forms, prlament elected by universal suffrage, women voting for the Senate, responsable governement, local elected bodies for municipal and provincial administrations. The most democratical person in the country was the King. All my efforts, as guardian of the constitution was to mantain the real democratical aplication of governement. My belief was that only relying on the people themselfs, especially on the peasants, which in the past, and in the present, are the sanest part of the population, real progress could be achieved. I constantly kept the closest contact with the people, I taveled, a lot, unofficialy about so that I was able to speak directly to the folk without intermediaries. It was a good way of knowing their thoughts and their wishes and controling the aplication of good and impartial administration. In Romania the King was considered, by the people as the supreme chief to whom they could aply directly for their needs big or small, they had faith in his spirit of justice. Many things were corected by this good and patriarhical form of democracy. One has talked about my dictatorship, is is a very false way of explaining the change of constitution in 1938. There was no dictatorship in Romania till Antonescu and the worst is that wich reigns now under the comand of Moscow. The change of constitution, keeping all the parlamentary forms, was caused by the necessity of reinforcing the executive power so as to fight with more possibilities against the extremist terrorist…..Hitler, thanks to the poicy of apeasement…..was incresing his force, Nazism was swamping the eastern world and his understanding with Stalin became a permenant danger for the country. I and my statesmen saw the danger, we cried it out aloud but were not listened to. You also ask me what I consider the most important achievement of my efforts towards social and economic improvements for the welfare of the people….What I believed in most was education; for a nation to progress on real democratical lines I believe that the people must be educated…..Two big institutions were created for this purpose the “Strala Tzerei” an organisation for practical and moral education of the youth using as a base the magnificent principles Baden Powel gave the Boy Scouts. It was a great succes and if I had been able to make it run 10 years a whole generation of children would have been brought up to be good and usefull citizens. The second was the “Social Service” an organisation for educating the peasants in a practical way…..the peasant is the sanest part of the population, to them went my greatest interest, and for their wellfare did I try and do the most…..You ask me also about my efforts on behalf of a Free Romanian movement. During the war the problem was to make the world understand the soul and the interests of Romanian people were on the side of those who were fighting for democracy and that one had to prepare happier day for them when peace came. But peace never came, certainly not for the poor suffering Romanians and to day this fight must be continued, for its success it is absolutely necessary that all Romanians, in free countries should be united in a common stive for the liberation of the Fatherland. Continualy my thoughts are planing what ought to be done, but that is another chapter of history´. OWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM THE VAST MAJORITY OF THIS DESCRIPTION CAN NOT BE SHOWN. PLEASE CONTACT IAA EUROPE DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
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