Word: bratianu
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...police recently rounded up several hundred Rumanian politicians and generals, most of them aging and long retired. Among them: George Tatarescu, 58, who was Premier under King Carol's regime, then turned his coat to serve the Communists as Foreign Minister until November 1947; and Octogenarian Constantin (Dinu) Bratianu, for years the leader of Rumania's National Liberal Party...
...coup had been prepared by the King with the leaders of the three opposition parties: Juliu Maniu of the National Peasants, Constantin Bratianu of the National Liberals, and Titel Petrescu of the Socialists. The Communists, because of their small number (fewer than 2,000 in the entire country) and the fact that most of their leaders were still in prison, played only a minor role...
Jailed, Exiled, Dismissed. This week, very few of the original participants were at liberty to celebrate the coup's anniversary. Maniu was in prison, Bratianu under house detention, Petrescu under ominous attack in the Communist press. Most of the high-ranking Army officers were under arrest, in exile or dismissed from the Army...
...Britain threatened not to recognize the Rumanian government if elections were rigged. Last week, after a long period of careful preparation, electoral lists were once more announced. Result: dithyrambic cries of foul play from aging (73) National Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu and National Liberal Party Leader Constantin Bratianu. They claimed that the lists had been drawn up in such a way as to favor the Soviet-supported candidates. While tension grew between the government and these two big opposition parties, the government itself threatened to split on the election issue...
...Rumania, as in other countries, the Opposition was often split, inside and outside the Cabinet. But the Opposition itself was unmistakable. Both National Liberal leader Constantin Dinu Bratianu and Peasant Party chief Juliu Maniu flatly advocated overthrow of the Moscow-backed regime of Premier Peter Groza. Mostly the Opposition program was negatively antiCommunist, but last week Maniu made a positive point : let the U.S. and Britain help the Opposition by recognizing a reconstructed Rumanian Government...