Word: vaida
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop-gap King Carol turned to a mediocre Peasant Party politician, M. Alexander Vaida-Voevod, who served as Premier for a time last year, commanded him to form a Cabinet. To outsiders chief interest in this Rumanian shift lay in the fact that M. Vaida-Voevod. when last Premier, nearly signed a non-aggression pact with Rumania's long-standing foe, the Soviet union. With this pact negotiated-lying on the table, so to speak- Moscow cocked a keen, expectant eye on Bucharest...
First the Cabinet of Premier Alexander Vaida-Voevod resigned. Next smart Dr. Juliu Maniu, onetime peasant, now a lawyer and Peasant Party leader, buried the hatchet of his two-year-old quarrel with King Carol, kissed His Majesty's hand and was gazetted Premier...
When His Majesty failed to hear from Professor Maniu he hastily denied a fact: that Premier Vaida-Voevod had resigned, as all Rumania knew...
Next day, after dickering among Bucharest politicians, M. Titulescu was again obliged to announce: "I find it impossible to form a Cabinet." Promptly King Carol dissolved the Rumanian Parliament, ordered new elections, entrusted the Government ad interim to former Premier (1919) Alexander Vaida-Voevod...