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Premier Duca was a member of the Liberal Party, oldtime machine of the famed Bratianu family and long bitterly opposed to the restoration of King Carol. Lately he was won over to the King's side and set valiantly to work suppressing anti-Semitism and a terrorist organization known as the Iron Guard. Beyond question it was the Iron Guard that killed him. Martial law was declared throughout the country; all army leaves were canceled; an iron-clad censorship was clapped on the Press. Detectives went out in squads, picking up every known member of the Iron Guard...
...years later the Dynasty of Bratianu seemed definitely down & out when scapegrace Carol (whom Ion had forced to abdicate) returned amid delirious triumph to Bucharest, thrust aside his own son, Boy King Mihai, and became King Carol II by an act of the Rumanian Parliament against which trembling old Vintila Bratianu alone had the courage to vote "No!" The rest of the Bratianu National Liberal Party abstained from voting and broken-hearted Vintila died later of apoplexy. King Carol ousted Mihai's mother, Queen Helen (now resident in England under the special favor and protection of George...
...also as Leader of the National Peasant Party, M. Vaida-Voevod cried: "I made a great mistake in trying to cooperate with His Majesty and I fear that my policy has proved disastrous for our Party. I assume full responsibility." The disaster consisted in the sudden resurgence of the Bratianu National Liberal Party, impelled by secretive, intriguing, ruthless Deputy Constantine ("Dino") Bratianu, brother of Vintila and Ion. Dino has been organizing among his friends, the great semifeudal landlords and industrialists of Rumania, a mass protest by their retainers against the National Peasant Party Government. Last week Dino and his Liberals...
...fool, Dino Bratianu knows that Rumania's Treasury is the real political prize. He became Finance Minister last week, leaving the Premiership to stern Dr. Ion Duca, titular Leader of the National Liberal Party. At once the new-Cabinet adopted a characteristic Bratianu policy: suppression of freedom of the press. Twelve pro-Peasant newspapers had their entire editions confiscated. For good measure Premier Duca suppressed two small parties of the ultraRight, the Iron Guards and the anti-Semitic National Christian Defense League. In a wholesale, nationwide shakeup local prefects were ousted and replaced by Bratianu men. "These new officials...
Under Ion the Great and his son Ion, the technique of "Bratianu Elections" became notorious throughout Europe. It included not only victory, when the Bratianu Premier wished to continue in power, but also defeat and the election of a puppet leader when the Dynasty of Bratianu saw fit to lie low temporarily. Dino Bratianu who now comes to power holds thousands of mortgage-ridden peasants in the hollow of his hand through his presidency of Rumania's national land bank, the Kredit Rural...