On the seventh birthday of His Majesty Mihai I last fall, Rumanian officials announced that their boy king would not be educated by tutors as are most Royal men-children but would go to school. Democratic, but not too democratic, the school would be composed of 36 small boys specially chosen from Rumania’s eight provinces. Presently the school was organized, photographs appeared in Rumania rotogravures of King Mihai studying geography with his jolly schoolmates, fust as suddenly, the school was disbanded. Last week an inquisitive Bucharest editor learned the reason for the rupture.
In Transylvania he found a sombre-eyed little German boy who had been a pupil at the short-lived royal school.
“You see,” explained King Mihai’s former schoolmate, “he was always hitting us. And so we decided that King or no King we would hit him back. And so we hit him on the nose and then they stopped the school.”
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