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...Government of National Union" included nine generals, one admiral, six civilians. Among them were representatives of Rumania's major parties: Juliu Maniu (Peasant Party), Dinu Bratianu (Liberal), Constantin Petrescu (Social Democrat), Lucretiu Patrascanu (Communist...
Deputy Premier Mihai Antonescu (no kin to Premier Ion) might be one possibility; two others: Juliu Maniu, president of the National Peasant Party, and Constantin Bratianu, president of the National Liberal Party. Both Maniu and Bratianu recently wrote well-advertised letters to Premier Antonescu, denouncing the "anti-British and anti-American character you have given to the war," demanding peace before the war reaches Rumania's frontiers...
...those arrested was democratic, anti-Axis Juliu Maniu, leader of an increasingly powerful peasants' movement in Rumania. Probably most of the others jailed by Antonescu were not Iron Guardists, but antiFascists...
Rumania's peasant leader Juliu Maniu and famed elder statesman Constantin Bratianu did their barking in the form of a memorandum to Premier Antonescu. "We must take precautions," they said, "so that our frontiers are protected and see to it that we regain Transylvania, of which we have been robbed. . . . If you are not convinced that the German Army is able to defeat the frequently annihilated Russian Army without the few precious Rumanian divisions, then you cannot believe at all in the final victory of Germany." A few days later Maniu supplied Antonescu with "proof" of Hungary...
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...