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Rumanians are disgruntled over the loss of 300,000 men in the Russian campaign. Pro-Allied feeling is mounting. Peasant Leader Juliu Maniu is openly hostile to the Antonescu regime. There are reports that ex-Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu has gone to Switzerland to form a Government to take over if Rumania is knocked...
...adopting the program of Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu, Antonescu had stolen the thunder from his most popular opponent, had picked up the most popular issue in the country. If that failed to stop the Guard, Germany was ready to take over through a new and weaker puppet. Through the streets of Bucharest rode King Mihai I, a lone Rumanian significantly bringing up the rear of a Nazi motorized division...
...late for the Council meeting, the Transylvanian Peasant Party leader, onetime Premier Juliu Maniu, turned up in Bucharest that morning, protesting bitterly. As news filtered out during the day to a shocked and sullen Rumania, protests grew ominous and muttering crowds of Bucharest citizens gathered outside the Palace. Even Iron Guardists were disillusioned. But to King Carol and a majority of his Councilors the choice was brutally simple: they could lose half of Transylvania, or they could lose Rumania...
Return. But the Bratianus were slipping. Post-War land reforms gave the peasants thousands of acres. After Versailles, democracy was on the wax in Europe and, notwithstanding Rumania's notorious balloting methods, a peasant leader named Juliu Maniu eventually won the premiership in 1929. When his reforms were further blocked by the Bratianu court clique, he conceived a plan to dethrone Mihai, crown Carol and get rid of Dowager Queen Marie and Prince Stirbey for good...
Against this is the National Peasant Party of idealistic Professor Juliu Maniu. One of his leading associates, Charles A. Davila, who was Rumanian Minister to the U. S. for eight years ending last December, burst out last week in Manhattan. Mr. Davila accused the present Rumanian Premier, the Orthodox Patriarch Miron Cristea, of being at heart just as anti-Semitic as the squelched Iron Guard, with the only difference that he consents to act as puppet for Carol II. The National Peasant Party, Mr. Davila declared, is "backed by the overwhelming majority of the people against the Court camarilla...