Word: bratiano
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...Parliament. There it was quickly seen how complete had been the triumph of Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu at the Parliamentary elections completed last week. Of :he 376 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 561 are now held by Maniu peasants, whereas last year the now ousted Dictator Yintila Bratiano had 318. Today the fallen House of Bratiano, which had dominated Rumania since the creation of the Kingdom (1881), controls but 14 Chamber seats. Similarly in the new Senate, Prime Minister Juliu Maniu holds an overwhelming majority of 168 over the 36 followers of Dictator-Reject Vintila Bratiano...
Last week, tall, aristocratic, big-boned M. Bratiano sat as a mere Deputy, disconsolate, while a broad, confident peasant grin spread under the small, black moustache of M. Maniu. Just prior to the opening of Parliament, the black moustache brushed ever so lightly and reverently the hand of Her Majesty the Dowager Queen...
...been exploited and oppressed. Third to debureaucratize and decentralize the Government, granting more authority to provinces and municipalities. Fourth, to reform the notoriously corrupt and unscrupulous Police, Gendarmerie and Secret Service. Fifth, to reconstruct the nation economically, providing broad measures of agricultural and industrial assistance. Sixth, to reverse the Bratiano policy of shutting out foreign capital, and rather welcome "peaceful penetration" of Rumania under appropriate and lenient restrictions...
...Dismissed every one of the notorious 12,000 Secret Police, who won so many elections for the "House of Bratiano by terroristic methods...
Notorious, of course, was the always stifling and often stupid Bratiano censorship of the Rumanian press...