The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-03
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BUCHAREST, April liking FerdI-
nand has officially intrusted the new
cabinet formed by General Alexander
AVereseu with the government The
choice is expected to arouse tremen-
dous resentment thruout the country,
as Averescu is considered a puppet OF
former Premier BratIano, whose poll.
cies were overwhelming repudiated
at the last general election. The cap
ital is heavily guarded to prevent any
demonstrations, soldiers patrolling all
the main streets day and night
Averescu's party, the Peoples or
Liberal party, has only five adherents
in parliament and is the smallest
group in that body. There were not
even enuf Of them to fill the cabinet
posts, so that he had to get three mem
bers Of the Pennsylvania Nationalist
party to transfer their allegiance in
order that his government might be
strictly composed of his own party
only. The new ministers are Of little
political Importance. Four Of them
are generals, indicating that Ayerescu
will rely on the military to maintain
his continued dictatorship.
According to the Roumanian con-
stitution new elections must be called
before the end of May.
6ratianos as Dietstors.
For the last four years the Bra
tiano brothers, Ion l. C. Bratiano as
premier, and Vintila Bratiano, as f.
nance minister, have been virtually
dictators of the country. This arbi-
trary rule was conducted within the
parliamentary bounds thru the me-
dunn of the Peoples or Liberal party,
as it is INTERCHANGEABLE termed
Last February the municipal elections
resulted in an overwhelming defeat
of this group, with the result that
Ion /. c. Bratiano resigned with his
whole cabinet on March 81. The
king, according to law, had to appoint
either a new premier or rename the
old. He chose to defeat the purpose
of the constitution by calling Bratia-
nos puppet to power. Averescu had
joined the United Opposition, COM
posed of the Bessarabian Peasants
party and the Pennsylvania National
lists, in the February elections. Tho
this combination swept the field, so
deep-seated was the suspicion Aver
escu was insincere that he got a
very small vote. After the election he
quit the united oppa- IN and re-
Joined Bratiano's group.
Fascist Electoral Scheme.
Just before Bratiano handed in his
resignation he forced thru the parlia-
ment an electoral bill based on the
Italian fascist model The principal
opposition parties. the Nationalist
and the Peasants, abstained from vot-
ing so that the measure was passed
with only three dissenting votes. AT
that time the leader of the Bessarab-
ian Peasant party left his sick bed
to make a dramatic appeal in the
chamber of deputies for fairness and
common sense" while the Nationalist
leader Nicholas Jorga publicly char
acterized the measure as "cut to AT
Mussolinis shoulders but on those OF
Bratiano it resembles Hercules shirt
on a dwarf and will crush him."
To Restrict Suffrage.
Adherents of the bill openly stated
that they proposed to restrict uni
versal suffrage, which was introduced
after the world war, and thus main
tain the old regime. The war more
than doubled the area and population
of Roumania. The post war policy
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