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Graft-ridden and Crown-trodden, the people of Rumania lost last week their great champion against the small, oligarchic moneyed class; Professor Iuliu Maniu, the first peasant-born Prime Minister which Rumania ever...
...March Vintila did not resign. The multitude of peasants trudged wearily home to plant and plow. But what they had done gave Dr. Maniu the political potency to upset the Bratianu Cabinet in November, seize the Prime Ministry for himself (TIME, Nov. 12 & 19, 1928). Abruptly last week he resigned, would say only, "My reason is the state of my health. I shall devote myself to travel and recreation...
...last week there were supposed to be three "real reasons" for the peasant Prime Minister's evasive resignation: 1) a split in his own Peasant Party between peasant factions of the "Old Kingdom" and those of such great new provinces added to Rumania after the War as Tran sylvania (Maniu birthplace); 2) successful intrigue by the Rumanian Minister at London, Nicolae Titulescu, through wily henchmen in Bucharest; 3) the anger of King Carol at Dr. Maniu's repeated insistence that His Majesty must not be crowned until Queen Helen becomes reconciled and consents to be crowned with...
...more potent reason for resigning Dr. Maniu hotly denied...
...Oracle: "Two Months." On its face the new Cabinet is little more than a reshuffling of the old with Dr. Maniu omitted. But the new Prime Minister? formerly Foreign Minister?was thought in Bucharest last week to be a stalking horse for intrigueful Nicolae Titulescu, Minister at London...