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...Bucharest last week everyone was in terror of the Iron Guard. Had not a blue-swastikaed youth assassinated Premier Ion Duca (TIME, Jan. 8)? Had not another youngster burst in upon the Public Prosecutor as he was eating breakfast to scream: "I was an accomplice in Duca's assassination. Arrest me! Do your worst. Christ and Rumania!"? All Bucharest believed last week that the "Death List" of prominent Rumanians marked for assassination by the 200 terrorists of the Iron Guard was headed by M. Titulescu with Premier Tatarescu about half way down. It was a terrible time for Rumania...
...request that the gentleman known to us only as "The Voice of Roosevelt" be used only in that capacity. It is most incongruous, at least in our humble opinion, to hear the President in so lowly (though not mean) an occupation as sleigh driver to the late Ion Duca, martyred Premier of Rumania...
...snow the 9:45 express train from pine clad Sinaia into Bucharest was delayed one night last week. A fair-sized crowd was on the station platform, for nearby is the extravagantly turreted palace that is King Carol's country home. Impatiently awaiting the train were Premier Ion Gheorghe Duca, hurrying back to the Capital after a conference with the King, former Mayor Costinescu of Bucharest and Secretary General of the Legislative Council Michel Vlashide. Frugally all three bought third class tickets. They did not notice a group of university students at the other end of the platform...
...loud explosion. One of the students, Nicholas Constantinescu, had pulled a smoke bomb from his pocket and hurled it. Before the smoke had cleared he walked slowly up to the unscathed Prime Minister, placed one hand on his shoulder and fired four shots into his head and body. Ion Duca turned at the second shot, made the sign of the Cross, dropped with blood oozing from his mouth...
...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...