Word: alexandru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Alexandru Averescu, onetime (1920-22; 1926-27) Prime Minister, who helped to defend M. Manoilescue, testified that the late King Ferdinand saw Prince Carol in Paris last year and attempted to persuade him to abandon Magda Lupescu, his red-haired mistress, and conduct himself as the court wished. The Prince seemed willing, but made conditions. Whereupon the King angrily cried: "It is not for you to make conditions "but for me, the King, to do so!" Embittered at his son's attitude, the ailing Monarch returned to Bucharest. Soon afterwards, however, he admitted to General Averescu that Prince...
Counsel for the defense of M. Manoilescu numbered 110. At their head were Rumania's famed lawyer Dr. Pompiliu Joanitescu and onetime Prime Minister (1920-22; 1926-27) and General Alexandru Averescu. Thirty-seven witnesses were scheduled to appear, among them being Prime Minister Bratiano and former Crown Prince Carol. The court subsequently declared that the Prince would be allowed to return to Rumania, from which he is exiled, only if his presence were vitally necessary to ensure fairness in the trial. Meantime, the court would accept his written evidence...