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Died. Marshal Alexander Averescu, 77, soldier-statesman, Rumania's World War generalissimo, three times (1918, 1920, 1926) its Prime Minister; in Bucharest...
...induced by sly King Carol to leave his chair at the University of Jassy, enter politics and split the Liberal (Bratianu) Party by siding with His Majesty against Uncle Vintila. On the Rumanian scene today there remains secure (if not supreme) the master intrigant His Grey Eminence General Alexandre Averescu. Seemingly no freak of fortune, no blow of fate can dislodge him from his niche of power. He used to alternate as Prime Minister with the Bratianus, he has played courtly tit-tat-to with Queen Marie, he gives fatherly advice to George Bratianu, and by King Carol...
...generals hostile to King Carol were placed on the retired list, two who assisted his return (Generals Averescu and Presan) were gazetted field marshals. The King's brother Prince Nicholas, who telegraphed the signal for his return was created "Chief Inspector of the Army and Navy." Said Carol of Nicholas last week: "He is more than a brother! ... He hourly does me splendid service." Nicholas told reporters that during his brother's exile they used an affectionate telegraphic code in which "Mary" stood for Carol. Without translating it Nicholas quoted one code message: "TELL TITKUS KISS FROM SOPHIE...
...Under Prime Minister Juliu Maniu a new cabinet was assembled last week, chiefly significant because it contains neither Field Marshal Averescu, Field Marshal Peter Presan, Professor Nicolae Iorga (once tutor to the King), or any other arch-Carolist. In effect the new Maniu cabinet is the same as his old one of fortnight ago, and his peasant party remains supreme in Rumanian politics. Impotent Vintila Bratianu, liberal leader and onetime Prime Minister, bitterest foe of Carol, was credited last week with shouting (at his Carolist nephew George Bratianu): "I'll kill Carol myself?with anything?with a kitchen knife...
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...