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...Kingdom, in 1881, both people and sovereigns have obeyed, until last fortnight, a family of Dictators. The last of these, Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano, has now been forced to resign (TIME, Nov. 12); and last week saw the victorious leader of the National Peasant Party, smart Dr. Juliu Maniu, called upon to form a Cabinet...
...steps of the Royal Palace in Bucharest bounded Dr. Maniu with a stride swift and confident to the point of indecorum. Pompously the Three Regents of Rumania, who reign for Boy King Mihai, bade Peasant Maniu welcome and requested him to take steps to form a Cabinet...
Prime Minister Maniu...
...steps at a time the new Prime Minister descended the palace stair, sped to begin work. By a penstroke he abolished the traditional Bratiano censorship of posts, telegraphs, telephones, press. With hearty handclasps he sent his colleagues off to their new Ministries. Then to eager correspondents Dr. Maniu said...
...Regency apparently acted in the belief that Peasant Leader Juliu Maniu, who staged gigantic mass demonstrations last spring (TIME, March 26), might attempt a revolution or coup d'état capable of toppling down not only the Tycoon but the Throne. To forestall this the Regency proposed to call Peasant Maniu to the Prime Ministry. So cataclysmic were events in Rumania, last week, that any prediction seemed mere folly. The fact that international financiers will now almost certainly refuse to underwrite the vitally needed National Loan, unless the Regency recalls Vintila Bratiano to the Prime Ministry, seemed the chief...