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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...
...European locomotive works. Only one concern-a German syndicate-took seriously the Prime Minister's ultrashort time limit. They would supply him with 100 husky harvest-pullers-if Rumania would pay something like twice the normal price. All the other bidders seemed to assume that what Farm Reliever Maniu really wanted was a low price on 100 locomotives for delivery by Christmas or perhaps next Spring...
...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...