Word: maniu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farm relief at any price was hectically sought last week by Rumania's peasant-born Prime Minister, smart, beetle-browed Juliu Maniu, once a farmer himself...
Recent surveys convinced M. Maniu that there are not enough locomotives in Rumania to haul the country's crops with effective speed to market. Cried he: "We must have 100 more freight locomotives by harvest time...
Alert correspondents soon learned the basic facts: the popular peasant government of energetic Prime Minister Juliu Maniu had successfully suppressed an attempted coup d'etat; 200 persons, most of them artillery officers, had been arrested; suspected regiments were confined to their barracks; strict censorship of the press, abolished by the Maniu government eight months ago, was instantly revived...
...weeks ago, active Prime Minister Maniu struck a vital blow at the remaining Bratianu power by decentralizing local administrations, cutting the influence of the Central Bucharest ministries, still Bratianu appointees, in rural Rumania...
Then came the attempted uprising. No one in the Maniu government, however, dared blame the Bratianu "Liberals" openly. Elected scapegoat was a little-known artillery colonel, one August Stojka. Though Bucharest newspapers dared print no comment on the uprising, its cause or effect, the following effusion was issued by Minister of the Interior Vaida-Voevod...