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...until a few days later did real trouble begin. Some 500 deputies and senators met as a self-constituted National Assembly, took a solemn oath "to defend the Constitution and defend our liberties even if it means sacrificing our lives...
Duly impressed by this powerful oath, the Court suspended both sentences...
...with Prince Nicholas from Cotroceni palace. Wildly cheering throngs delayed him. It was 3:15 when he entered Parliament, ushered by Speaker St. Ciceo Pop, greeted by one vast roar of cheering as boiled-shirted deputies and senators leaped to their feet. To take his royal oath Carol faced not the speaker's table, for that had been removed, but a blazing altar of the orthodox church...
Patriarch Miron Cristea drew nigh, his snowy hair surmounted by a Byzantine crown of massy gold, his right hand grasping the apostolic staff. Carol will not be crowned until next autumn. In a firm voice he read his Kingly oath, kissed the cross extended by the crowned patriarch, and, with tears on his cheeks spoke thus: "In keeping with the words of the gospel, I do not wish death to those who sinned against me, but I rejoice over every one who returns to the fold from which he never should have strayed...
...aside sentiment and gallantry to send Thomas Lindsay Blanton back to the House of Representatives. So impatient was he to take his old seat and rattle the chamber's glass ceiling once more with his mighty voice that he beat his credentials to Washington, was denied the oath of office until they arrived...