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Over mountains, down dales, through spreading forests and along hard rutty roads trudged hundreds of Rumanian peasants and then thousands, last week, to the old Transylvania walled town of Alba Julia. The peasants were responding to the pied piping of their great political champion, Dr. Juliu Maniu, not long since a peasant himself. They know, for he has told them, that the aristocratic cabinet at Bucharest derives its power from a parliament elected by corruption and police: bullying of the voters. Therefore the trudgers were converging upon Alba Julia to take a great oath and hurl a potent warning...
When 200,000 peasants finally streamed into small Alba Julia, Pied Piper Juliu Maniu told them to make a hearty supper upon food which they had brought, said that although the hotels were full the streets were theirs to sleep upon, and finally instructed that all should be up betimes at 5 a. m. Docile, the peasants ate, slept, rose and assembled under the supervision of their priests to take the following great pious oath: "We swear to the great and good God to fight a righteous fight against the Government which is a plague to the country and which...
Much to the disgust of foreign observers, the immediate intentions of Pied Piper Maniu seemed to have been realized at this point. He had not urged his docile horde to do anything. He dared not, because upon the rooftops of Alba Julia were planted machine guns, and quietly massed at strategic points were well-paid troops apparently loyal to the Bratiano regime. In these circumstances, Dr. Maniu told his peasants to wait a bit in Alba Julia and himself sped to Bucharest where he presented their resolution to the Regency.* The regents refused to request Premier Vintila Bratiano...
...rebirth of speculation as to why Carol did abdicate was nipped last week by a fresh sensation. It was revealed that while the peasants were assembling at Alba Julia, two airplanes reputedly chartered by Prince Carol waited at Croydon airdrome, near London, laden with 120,000 manifestos announcing the return of Carol to Rumania. Operatives of Scotland Yard were understood to have seized the manifestos. The text of these leaflets, apparently designed to fire the sluggard peasants to action, began: "Rumanians, do not forget King Ferdinand's son! [i. e., Carol]." The likelihood that a Carol coupe de leaflets...
...GREENE MURDER CASE-S. S. Van Dine-Scribners ($2). In a queer old mansion at 53rd Street and the East River, Manhattan, murder was as plentiful as dust under the bed. First, Julia, eldest Greene daughter, was shot in the heart in her bedroom with the lights turned on. Then, Ada, youngest and adopted Greene daughter, was shot in the back, but did not die. Then, Chester Greene was killed; then- but that would spoil the story. Anyway, all the Greenes hated each other like poison; they were forced to live together in the old homestead with their irascible mother...