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...badly beaten at the polls was King Carol's subservient Premier George Tatarescu that, even though-Rumanian law allows any Government that fills 40% of the seats in the lower chamber 75% of its voting power, he could not muster a majority. Last fortnight's elections showed that the three strongest parties in Rumania are: the National Liberal Party of beaten Tatarescu, the National Peasant Party of wild-eyed Julius Maniu, the Nazi-sup-ported Iron Guard of Zelea Codreanu. All three were objectionable last week: the National Liberal Party because they were damned as pro-French...
Theory of this is that there are too many political parties in Rumania anyhow and endless bickering can be avoided only by giving whichever party is strong enough to win 40% unchallenged power. "Our system combines many of the best features of Democracy as well as Fascism," Rumanian courtiers are fond of purring. Last week they were aghast as King Carol's unpopular Premier George Tata-rescu's followers were found to have won only 38.5.% of the seats...
This meant that His Majesty, the King's mistress Mme Lupescu and the Premier had been vigorously repudiated by the whole Rumanian people. The Parliamentary Opposition has long denounced His Majesty's open flaunting in strongly anti-Semitic Rumania of a Jewish mistress notorious for selling political favors. But last week King Carol did not think of abdicating and Premier Tatarescu, although defeated, thought of a desperate measure by which he might...
...popular vote, and that that sufficed. Next the Government suddenly announced that as yet there were no official returns. Everyone already knew, however, that the main feature of the poll, apart from Tatarescu's failure to win 40%, had been tremendous gains by the so-called Rumanian Nazis...
...Commission, the Premier wrote out and signed his resignation, left it with the King. In Court circles it was said that nothing would be done until after the New Year holidays, and by that time M. Tatarescu may conceivably have been able to line up support from other Rumanian parties for a coalition Cabinet. It was even possible that the Rumanian Nazis (who are said to shake down Mme Lupescu for such large sums-by threatening to assassinate her-that she has ironically been called their biggest backer) might team up in coalition with His Majesty's Government...