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...extends eternally from January to January, so the Rumanian political cycle starts when M. Jon Bratiano* becomes Premier, and is not full rounded until he has resigned and then resumed that office. Therefore, politically sneaking, it was "January" in Rumania last week, for M. Bratiano had just resumed the Premiership once more. He has been absent from office-not from power-for some 15 months. To sketch the events of those months is to trace the orbit, perhaps the horoscope, of Rumania...
...order was obeyed. General Averescu picked up a sheet of notepaper from the table before him, dipped pen in ink, wrote out and signed his resignation. His startled ministers did likewise. Then came the real bombshell. Bland, the royal emissary announced that His Majesty had called to the Premiership Prince Babu Stirbey...
...friend of Mr. MacDonald as Journalist-Lecturer Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe, TIME welcomes the information that onetime Premier MacDonald now defies the authorities and spells his name with a big "D." His former habit of signing with a small "d" is attested by British passports signed by him during his Premiership, and recently examined by TIME to verify the spelling and capitalization "James Ramsay Macdonald." Since no one but Miss Ishbel MacDonald should receive credence in the matter of her age, TIME requested and received the following telegram: "BORN MARCH TWO 1903 (Signed) Ishbel MacDonald...
...amendments. As a result, only seven words of the first clause of the measure passed second reading, and the Government announced that it would invoke cloture* something which has not been done in the British House of Commons since 1921 (during the latter period of Mr. Lloyd George's Premiership...
French premiers are proverbially supple in their politics, but last week three statesmen aged 66, 63, and 55 who have held the Premiership a total of seven times proved themselves also supple in their joints...