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...peasants and then thousands, last week, to the old Transylvania walled town of Alba Julia. The peasants were responding to the pied piping of their great political champion, Dr. Juliu Maniu, not long since a peasant himself. They know, for he has told them, that the aristocratic cabinet at Bucharest derives its power from a parliament elected by corruption and police: bullying of the voters. Therefore the trudgers were converging upon Alba Julia to take a great oath and hurl a potent warning at the Prime Minister of Rumania; massive, aristocratic, inflexible Vintila Bratiano, whose great political family has dominated...
...Fascist march on Rome was wholly militant and partially armed. It compelled a quavering cabinet to yield, to vanish. Very different was a march upon Bucharest last week, staged by 60,000 peaceful peasants. Their revered leader, Dr. Juliu Maniu, threatened no more than that the peasants would wait quietly in the streets for four days, meanwhile petitioning Premier Vintila Bratiano to resign...
Marie was kissing Marie; mother was embracing daughter; Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania was bidding a gracious, willowy farewell at Bucharest, last week, to Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, her recent house guest (TIME, March...
...contrast, the bequests to Marie of Rumania from her late husband, are not in cash but in the form of a life tenancy of Cotroceni, her favorite palace in Bucharest, plus barely sufficient life grants and stipends to keep the wolf a decent, royal distance from her door. Therefore, the departure of Marie of Jugoslavia, figuratively bearing 80,000,000 lei, must have tried her mother's nerves. So serene and queenly is Marie of Rumania, however, that two days later she was confiding optimistically to correspondents...
...Juliu Maniu, doughty Leader of the Rumanian Peasant Party (Opposition). At peasant mass meetings throughout Rumania, M. Maniu has furiously denounced the Government of Premier Vintila Bratiano and skirted treason by dark hints against the Regency. That the leading opposition statesman should thus journey all the way from Bucharest to Monte Carlo for a conference with Prince Carol gave an aura of importance, at last, to that loose-lipped, irresolute young...