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Born luckily to place and power, Premier Jon Bratiano has held and builded upon both. He and his brother Vintila, and brother-in-law Prince Babu Stirbey (intimate of 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...
...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...
...time these charges were made, Prince Babu Stirbey quietly left Rumania until the incident blew over. Politically Prince Babu is hand in glove with onetime Premier Jon Bratiano whose powerful dynasty has an almost feudal hold on large areas of Rumanian peasant land, as well as upon the principal industrial banks...
Observers watched eagerly to see whether Premier Prince Babu Stirbey would be able to assemble the National Coalition Cabinet desired by King Ferdinand...