Word: bratianos
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Ferdinand's Will. Despatches from Rumania told of the steady sobbing of Dowager Queen Marie, as the will of King Ferdinand was read, in the presence of herself, the three Regents and Premier Bratiano...
Since everyone knew that King Michael's signed proclamation had been drafted by Premier Jon Bratiano, the ruling oligarch of Rumania (TIME, July 11), it was perhaps "natural" and "fitting" that the boy-king's first state paper should thus bristle with elderly, drawing-room conceits. It was like Jon Bratiano, 63, to approve phrases such as "laurels gathered on the battlefields," and "eyes [King Ferdinand's] which never ceased to contain unlimited affection." What did phrases matter to the Dictator? A man-king approaching his second childhood had simply been replaced by a boy-king in his first...
...swear allegiance came the three Regents of Rumania, who will rule until King Michael is of age (1939). Observers necessarily recalled that the Regency Act (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926) was forced through Parliament by Dictator Bratiano with no other purpose than to secure as regents three puppets. First is Prince Nicholas, 23, a youth of no experience in statecraft; and the other two regents, both over 60, and both "Bratiano men," are the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Rumania, Miron Cristea, and Supreme Court Chief Justice G. V. Buzdugan. The choice of Chief Justice Buzdugan was especially shrewd...
...Carol retained his rights and title of Crown Prince; but with the advent of Mme. Lupescu he abdicated, announcing that he had become a private citizen. This status was confirmed by the Rumanian Parliament, but jurists doubt the constitutionality of the proceedings, which were hastily put through by M. Bratiano, avowedly a foe to Carol. As yet no satisfactory explanation has revealed why the Crown Prince thus played into the hands of the Dictator...
...career passed chiefly among persons now dead, and amid situations now altered or vanished, the briefest summary suffices. His late uncle, Carol von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the first King of Rumania, having achieved that rank from mere princehood through the masterful intrigue of his great minister, the late Jon Bratiano (father of the present Dictator). Prince Ferdinand succeeded his childless uncle as King in October, 1914. He had married, in 1893, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (later Windsor). During the War, King Ferdinand & Queen Marie saw their country utterly ravished...