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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...
Arrest. The week's Rumanian furore started when the prime minister, John Bratiano, the actual ruler of Rumania, caused one M. Manoilescu, onetime (1926-27) undersecretary of finance under the Averescu government, to be arrested. M. Manoilescu was carrying five identical letters from Ex-Crown-Prince Carol to the principal party chiefs in Rumania, including M. Bratiano...
Onetime Prime Minister General Alexanderu Averescu announced his intention of defending his former subordinate, M. Manoilescu, in his trial before a court-martial, charged with high treason...
...might have led King Ferdinand of Rumania on to better fortune for his dynasty, had he dared to brave Jon Bratiano then. Instead Ferdinand I, weak, invalided, accepted M. Bratiano's resignation as Premier without comment, and meekly called one of the Bratiano henchmen, General Fofoza Alexander Averescu, to the Premiership...
Thenceforward the Rumanian cycle has moved smoothly-with General Averescu masquerading as a defender of the citizenry but actually obedient to oligarchs Jon and Vintila Bratiano. These gentlemen resolved, recently, to resume power, sensing that popular resentment had guttered down...