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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...
Last week, with Rumania in a tighter financial corner than ever, the National Peasant Party won the election again-or was "allowed to win it" as Rumanian cynics observed. Wastrel King Carol at once called on Peasant Party Leader Professor Juliu Maniu, asked him to be Premier again...
Professor Maniu when he was last Premier acquiesced to the return of Carol from exile, permitted him to snatch the crown off the head of Carol's son, Boy King Mihai (TIME. June 16, 1930). Next thing Premier Maniu knew he was ousted. The King and his favorites were spending right & left, bankrupting Rumania. In silence and in dignity Professor Maniu retired to his law books among the peasants of Transylvania. Last week he took his time about obeying the Royal "command" to come to Bucharest and save for Rumania once more...
When His Majesty failed to hear from Professor Maniu he hastily denied a fact: that Premier Vaida-Voevod had resigned, as all Rumania knew...
Rumania's last election was in the brief reign of Boy King Mihai, since ousted by his father King Carol II. The Three Regents for King Mihai had just appointed as Premier Dr. Juliu Maniu, leader of the Peasant Party. In the ensuing election the Peasant Party won 333 seats which they still held up to last week...