Word: bratiano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bratiano. Bearded, sleek-vested Rumanian diplomats received the correspondents with reserve, refused to be quoted, uttered however a platitude in which there is much truth: "Gentlemen, now as for many years, the political situation in Rumania is Jon Bratiano...
Apparently it is. That extraordinary man, whose family have supplied the "Mayors of the Palace"* to the present Rumanian dynasty since its inception (1866), is not now Premier, but Premier General Averescu is universally admitted to be his puppet. The Bratiano clan controls the oil and much of the industry of Rumania. More vitally it controls the indescribably corrupt electoral machinery of Rumania by which new parties achieve overwhelming majorities and old ones are wiped out by the figurative pressure of a button: the button connecting the residence of Jon Bratiano by private telephone with the office of the Chief...
What did Jon Bratiano do while the eyes of the world were upon Bucharest, to trumpet that he is master there and will oppose either the reinstatement of Carol as Crown Prince or the appointment of Queen Marie as one of the regents for the five-year-old heir apparent Prince Michel...
...Bratiano-1) "Advised" the King to issue a proclamation reaffirming Carol's banishment, which the Monarch instantly did; 2) Gave an interview to the press in which he said: "I have not heard of any proposal to appoint Her Majesty a regent," although Bucharest was ringing with the project...
...everyone knows Prince Carol's political opposition to the Bratiano clique last year led to his abdication, though his relations beneath the rose with a certain Mme. Magda Lupescu were trumped up at the time to cover the political scandal. Mme. Lupescu, indeed, still resides with Carol at Paris...