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Biographer . Exposes Lupescu's Penials
Moses A. Leavitt, executive uninterrupted service with JDC,
vice-chairman of the Joint Dis- of Noel Aronovici, director of
Elena Lupescu, generally re-
tribution Committee, announces the JDC reconstruction depart- ferred to as Magda Lupescu,
the retirement, after 37 years of ment.
the sensational femme fatale
whose marriage to King Carol of
Romania was an international
sensation, tried
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to deny her
Jewishnes's:
This is one of
her many sha-
dowy acts that
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are exposed
and c o n-
demned in
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"Lupescu: The
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Story of a
Royal Love
Affair," by
Alice - Leone
Moats,
pub-
Season's Cordial Greetings
lished by Hen-
Lupescu
ry Holt & Co.
(383 Madison, NY 17).
The publishers explain that
the author had known Carol
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and Magda for more than 20
years, but that although she
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obtained her- material at first
Saturday till 2 a.m.—Closed Sundays
hand, "this biography is in no
sense authorized.
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In her expose of Lupescu's
attempts to hide her Jewish
background, commenting on
Carol's separation from his
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first wife, Queen Helene, Miss'
Moat writes:
"Because of the deep-rooted
anti-Semitism that existed in
Romania, people who could
easily have forgiven Carol for
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breaking his marriage vows,
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couldn't forgive him for seleCt-
ing a Jewess as his partner in
adultery. From the very be-
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ginning, Madame Lupescu's
non-Aryan origin proved a
most awkward handicap and
even her ingenuity was taxed
in finding ways to overcome
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it." Miss Moat quotes this "flat
denial" from Lupescu's auto-
biography: "My father was a
R'Omanian. My mother Russian.
We are not Jews although it
has been said that we are."
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that "since a denial that her
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ried conviction, she hit- upon
the idea of repudiating him en-
tirely, and made up an out-
rageous fairy tale which was
enthusiastically accepted by an
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English writer called A. L,
Easterman and printed in his
book, 'King Carol, Hitler, and
Lupescu.' " Easterman (a lead-
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er in the World Jewish Con-
gress), according to Miss Moat,
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who repudiates the theor y,
"disclosed. the awesome secret,
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—she was the daughter of her
lover's great-uncle, Carol I, by
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a village schoolteacher!"
We learn . also that proofs of-
fered—and accepted by Easter
man—were: extraordinary re-
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semblance between Carol's mis-
tress and his sister, Elizabeth;
Elena's (Magda's) education at
a Catholic convent; Papa Lu-
pescu's license to own a shop
in spite of the discriminatory
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laws against Jews.
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What's Lupescu's present an-
swer? Miss Moat. states: "Now
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that the Princess has taken up
petmanent residence outside of
Romania, she has less reason
to reject her ancestors, a n d
when a friend was indiscreet
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enough to inquire how much
Jewish blood she had, she an-
swered, am not one tenth.'"
In Miss Moat's description of
the political events in Ro-
mania, she reveals that she fell
prey to a common error when
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she states, writing about Cod-
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reanu's Legion of the Archan-
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gel Michael, "as the leading
Communists after World War I
were Jews, the Legion became
anti-Semitic.
On the whole, the picture of
Elena (Magda) Lupescu is not
a pretty one. The author cer-
tainly does not like her, and
the reader won't after finish-
ing this book.
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