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...Sleazy Bucharest, the "Paris of the Balkans,"* and all sprawling Rumania were agog. After three years in eclipse, the great political Dynasty of Bratianu-the makers of Rumania-were again ascendant last week over Rumania's Royal House of Hohenzollern. Buck-toothed King Carol, who has tried to play the Dictator, was forced to accept a new Cabinet chosen not by himself, as his National Peasant Party Cabinets have been, but by the National Liberal Party of the Dynasty of Bratianu...
Followed the famed "March on Bucharest" of 60,000 unarmed, peaceful peasants who squatted, sprawled and slept all over the muddy streets of the capital in protest against the Dynasty of Bratianu. Finally Vintila, far less able and astute than Ion, was forced to resign. Advised by Rumania's three Regents, Boy King Mihai appointed as Premier the National Peasant Party leader, chipper little Professor luliu Maniu, who arrived at the Royal Palace with his new Cabinet list scribbled on a crumpled bit of paper, exclaiming "Here it is!" (TIME...
...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...
...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 threatened King Carol: unless he let them form a Government they would fill Bucharest with at least 100,000 protest marchers. Craven, the King yielded, announcing "My people, this step is taken to prevent an outbreak of violence in the capital and its spread throughout Rumania...
Ousted from Berlin was Chief Commercial Attaché H. Lawrence Groves, 15 years in the service, and Trade Commissioner William T. Daugherty. That left the Berlin bureau halved. The London office was reduced from eleven to two. Offices at Belgrade, Berne, Bucharest, Budapest, Helsingfors, Lisbon, Oslo, Riga were abandoned entirely. Thirteen others were closed throughout the world...