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Dazed and incredulous, the Rumanian people strove to realize, last week, that they and their Royal Family are free at last. Since the foundation of the Kingdom, in 1881, both people and sovereigns have obeyed, until last fortnight, a family of Dictators. The last of these, Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano, has now been forced to resign (TIME, Nov. 12); and last week saw the victorious leader of the National Peasant Party, smart Dr. Juliu Maniu, called upon to form a Cabinet...
Most, if not all, of these persons have been hounded by Bratiano secret agents for years. They have seen ballots cast for their candidates torn up and burned by the Bratiano police. Today their turn has come at long last. Down Bratianos: up Peasants...
...steps at a time the new Prime Minister descended the palace stair, sped to begin work. By a penstroke he abolished the traditional Bratiano censorship of posts, telegraphs, telephones, press. With hearty handclasps he sent his colleagues off to their new Ministries. Then to eager correspondents Dr. Maniu said...
...paradox of last week was that it was the Regency, hand picked by Jon Bratiano, which demanded that his brother, Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano resign on or before Dec. 1, 1928. Naturally the insulted Tycoon resigned next morning, after an all night session of his Cabinet. The most ominous feature of the situation is that Vintila Bratiano has been for many years Finance Minister and has conducted single handed the negotiations with international financiers for a $250,000,000 loan to Rumania-a project now complete in all its details and on the very verge of consummation...
...forestall this the Regency proposed to call Peasant Maniu to the Prime Ministry. So cataclysmic were events in Rumania, last week, that any prediction seemed mere folly. The fact that international financiers will now almost certainly refuse to underwrite the vitally needed National Loan, unless the Regency recalls Vintila Bratiano to the Prime Ministry, seemed the chief indication that Rumania's ousted Tycoon may be down...