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...Maniu is for Western democracies, the Little Entente, the Balkan Entente and the League of Nations. I am utterly opposed to them...
Rumanian politics are a good deal like a gypsy encampment and, paradoxically, last week the Rumanian Iron Guard, generally considered Statesman Titulescu's poisoners, had just made a most peculiar pact with Dr. Julius Maniu, the messiah of the Peasant Party. It was described as follows by Iron Guard Leader Cornelius Zelea Codreanu: "The fact is that Dr. Maniu is for democracy and I am opposed to it. In the minorities matter, Dr. Maniu is for justice and tolerance, and I am for justice and intolerance. There is no justice compelling us to share the rule of this country...
What the agreement uniting such opposites as the Peasant Party and the Iron Guard did do was suavely explained by Dr. Maniu. "The pact our two parties have made implies no abatement of their political hostility," he said. "It simply means that the Peasant Party and the Iron Guard will strive together to prevent the Government from dominating the elections...
...suppressed speech Dr. Maniu in tended to say further that he had counted, as Premier, upon a reconciliation between King Carol and the wife he abandoned for jolly Wench Lupescu, beauteous Queen Helen, the cousin of the Duchess of Kent. "It was our purpose after this reconciliation had been effected," Dr. Maniu would have said if he could, "to proceed to the joint coronation of Their Majesties...
Finally came the laugh-provoking quip for which the Rumanian Senators were waiting. They all understood juicy Jorga to be referring to ascetic Bachelor Julius Maniu when he crushingly concluded: "People who do not sin usually do not sin because they are not able...