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...obeyed. General Averescu picked up a sheet of notepaper from the table before him, dipped pen in ink, wrote out and signed his resignation. His startled ministers did likewise. Then came the real bombshell. Bland, the royal emissary announced that His Majesty had called to the Premiership Prince Babu Stirbey...
...shocking force of this announcement can only be appreciated when it is remembered that 16 months ago the Opposition parties posted on billboards by night, huge leering posters of Prince Babu Stirbey bearing the caption "This is He!" An especially significant poster was pasted up directly across the street from the royal apartments of Queen Marie, with the caption...
...explanation for these posters was furnished by the Opposition press, which declared: "The recent abdication of Crown Prince Carol. (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926) is now widely interpreted as a protest against Prince Babu Stirbey's having compromised his [Carol's] mother and made his father appear ridiculous. . . .It is understood that Prince Carol encountered Prince Babu Stirbey in the antechamber of Queen Marie's apartments and proceeded to box his ears...
...time these charges were made, Prince Babu Stirbey quietly left Rumania until the incident blew over. Politically Prince Babu is hand in glove with onetime Premier Jon Bratiano whose powerful dynasty has an almost feudal hold on large areas of Rumanian peasant land, as well as upon the principal industrial banks...
...departure from Rumania is taken at a time when the oppressive Rumanian oligarchy on which her throne rests has its house well in order for inspection by the world at large. Theoretically those pillars of the throne, the brothers Bratiano and Her Majesty's potent favorite Prince Babu Stirby, have withdrawn from active participation in the Government, following the victory of the People's Party over the Liberals at the last election (TIME, June 7). Actually the Bratianos stepped out of office as Liberals only to send in their henchman Premier Averescu as a pretended exponent...