Word: titulescu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finally we are determined to save our country from Titulescu Bolshevism! The Iron Guard will fight Titulescu...
They succeeded only after the most desperate measures, including three blood transfusions (TIME, Sept. 28, 1936, et ante). Since then Statesman Titulescu has kept clear of Rumania while he convalesced. Last spring he was lunched in Paris by Socialist Premier Blum, who is now Vice Premier, and French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos. Later, stopping at the Ritz in London, he had long talks with pro-French British bigwigs such as Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Sir Robert Vansittart, Winston Churchill and Lloyd George. Last week, 5,000 Rumanians jampacked Bucharest's dingy railway station, flaunted banners reading "Long Live Titulescu...
Rumania is about to hold a general election, and towering Statesman Titulescu stepped from his Wagon-Lit to declare: "In this hour of gravity I have had to return to my country to take part in portentous events. I am anxious to face my foes with restraint and courtesy. However, if they compel me to do so, I shall show them I can fight not only with the weapons of Geneva but with those of a gypsy encampment...
...fact that pro-French, pro-League Nicholas Titulescu was greeted by National Peasant Party Leader Nicolai Lupu-who declared amid cheers, "You were deprived of your Cabinet post by trickery!"-set rumors buzzing. It was said that the Peasant Party will insure his re-election to a seat in the Rumanian Chamber and generally back his political comeback, although he never has belonged to the Peasant Party...
Rumanian politics are a good deal like a gypsy encampment and, paradoxically, last week the Rumanian Iron Guard, generally considered Statesman Titulescu's poisoners, had just made a most peculiar pact with Dr. Julius Maniu, the messiah of the Peasant Party. It was described as follows by Iron Guard Leader Cornelius Zelea Codreanu: "The fact is that Dr. Maniu is for democracy and I am opposed to it. In the minorities matter, Dr. Maniu is for justice and tolerance, and I am for justice and intolerance. There is no justice compelling us to share the rule of this country...