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...would receive nobody before she left, least of all Supreme Court Justice Constantin Saratzeanu, though he humbly sought an audience. Grandmother Queen Marie could not forgive Justice Saratzeanu for having been elected by Parliament to a vacancy among the three Regents of Rumania (TIME, Oct. 21), a vacancy which she had dearly coveted. As Her Majesty's special train chuffed off toward Balcic all Rumania gasped at an interview blazoned above her name by the Royalist newspaper Universal: "The royal family does not even know what it means to strive for honors and privileges. We do not need such...
...representatives had not forgotten, but there was undoubtedly a majority ready to rush through the amendment or anything else, if Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu should crack the whip. At last he issued from the Cabinet huddle, proposed a most unfamiliar name: "Constantin Saratzeanu...
...Saratzeanu?" cried several flabbergasted representatives, and others indignantly moved for a temporary suspension of the session which the Speaker granted. In the interval the Cabinet retired into a second huddle and henchmen of the Prime Minister busily circulated among the rustic members of the Peasant Party, to explain that Constantin Saratzeanu was an honorable though inconspicuous rooster on the Rumanian Supreme Court bench...
When the vote was finally taken docile peasants rolled up an overwhelming total of 455 ballots out of 486 for Rooster Saratzeanu. Only nine representatives voted for Prince Carol. The remaining 22 ballots went to a popular Army corps commander, General Presan. The 39 members of the Liberal party, die-hard partisans of Queen Marie, abstained from voting entirely, announced themselves "scandalized" at the Peasant Prime Minister's last minute whip-cracking for a nonentity. Reporters and photographers found him totally ignorant of what had been passing in Parliament, astounded by the news...
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