Word: stirbey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...shocking force of this announcement can only be appreciated when it is remembered that 16 months ago the Opposition parties posted on billboards by night, huge leering posters of Prince Babu Stirbey bearing the caption "This is He!" An especially significant poster was pasted up directly across the street from the royal apartments of Queen Marie, with the caption...
...explanation for these posters was furnished by the Opposition press, which declared: "The recent abdication of Crown Prince Carol. (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926) is now widely interpreted as a protest against Prince Babu Stirbey's having compromised his [Carol's] mother and made his father appear ridiculous. . . .It is understood that Prince Carol encountered Prince Babu Stirbey in the antechamber of Queen Marie's apartments and proceeded to box his ears...
...Carolist press, although mercilessly repressed by the Government censor, managed to insinuate the alleged significance of all these developments. It hinted that before Prince Carol set out to attend the funeral of Queen Alexandra (TIME, Jan. 11,) he "encountered Prince Babu Stirbey in the antechamber of Queen Marie's apartments and proceeded to box his ears...
Late in the week a despatch from Bucharest reported: "It is now openly rumored that King Ferdinand countermanded the order of Prince Babu Stirbey for the arrest of Deputy Filipescu. . . . The abdication of Crown Prince Carol is now widely interpreted as a protest against Prince Babu Stirbey's having compromised his mother and made his father appear ridiculous...