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Before the establishment of communist rule, Romania enjoyed an extremely vigorous cultural life. In the pre-communist years it produced such luminaries as: Brancusi in sculpture, Iorga in history, Lipati and Enesco in music, and better-known playwright Ionesco. Today there is a general stifling of creativity and the life of the mind...
...Rumania a potent oracle is Professor Nicolae Iorga, King Carol's onetime tutor. "I expect," said he last week, "that the new Cabinet will scarcely last two months...
...Under Prime Minister Juliu Maniu a new cabinet was assembled last week, chiefly significant because it contains neither Field Marshal Averescu, Field Marshal Peter Presan, Professor Nicolae Iorga (once tutor to the King), or any other arch-Carolist. In effect the new Maniu cabinet is the same as his old one of fortnight ago, and his peasant party remains supreme in Rumanian politics. Impotent Vintila Bratianu, liberal leader and onetime Prime Minister, bitterest foe of Carol, was credited last week with shouting (at his Carolist nephew George Bratianu): "I'll kill Carol myself?with anything?with a kitchen knife...
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