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Wrote the New York Sun's observant F. E. Stevens from Bucharest...
...years ago last March this bright-eyed, keenly dynamic little man snatched fame by the same means as Medieval Hamelin's mythical Pied Piper. Instead of rats he led peasants, hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands from all over the countryside on a weird, terrifying, peaceful march to Bucharest (TIME, Mar. 26, 1928). Squatting and sleeping 60,000 strong in the streets of the Capital, the peasants demanded that the then No. 1 Oligarch, Prime Minister Vintila Bratianu, resign...
...could have prevented it!" In Bucharest last week there were supposed to be three "real reasons" for the peasant Prime Minister's evasive resignation: 1) a split in his own Peasant Party between peasant factions of the "Old Kingdom" and those of such great new provinces added to Rumania after the War as Tran sylvania (Maniu birthplace); 2) successful intrigue by the Rumanian Minister at London, Nicolae Titulescu, through wily henchmen in Bucharest; 3) the anger of King Carol at Dr. Maniu's repeated insistence that His Majesty must not be crowned until Queen Helen becomes reconciled and consents...
...Oracle: "Two Months." On its face the new Cabinet is little more than a reshuffling of the old with Dr. Maniu omitted. But the new Prime Minister? formerly Foreign Minister?was thought in Bucharest last week to be a stalking horse for intrigueful Nicolae Titulescu, Minister at London...
...Back in Bucharest His Majesty pulled himself together, sent Benito Mussolini Rumania's highest decoration, the Grand Cordon of Carol...