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...National Liberal Political fund was collected by the whips of that party in exactly the same way as every other political fund, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, for well over a century. ... As for the honor lists* during my Premiership, they were prepared by the chief whips in the usual way. They were then submitted to the joint leaders of the coalition, myself and Bonar Law, and afterward Sir Austin Chamberlain,? who succeeded him. We sat together in joint meeting to consider and settle those lists. The claims were urged on purely public grounds. . . . During the existence...
...Finance Minister Vintila Bratiano left his dead brother's bedchamber and hastened to present the Cabinet's resignation to the three Regents. They at once "commanded" him to assume the Premiership. Soon there was a new Premier Bratiano?with all Cabinet posts redistributed exactly as before...
...Bratiano died at 6:45 a. m., without having resigned his Premiership...
...Queen Marie) control the State. They dominate Rumanian banking, oil, manufactures. Their large estates are worked by peasants in a manner all but feudal. Because they have used their power to systematically exploit Rumania, a tide of public indignation periodically rises, and before it M. Bratiano resigns the Premiership, announces that he has "retired," and proceeds to lie in wait...
...King Ferdinand of Rumania on to better fortune for his dynasty, had he dared to brave Jon Bratiano then. Instead Ferdinand I, weak, invalided, accepted M. Bratiano's resignation as Premier without comment, and meekly called one of the Bratiano henchmen, General Fofoza Alexander Averescu, to the Premiership...