CRISIS IN ROUMANIA

Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1929, Page 11

CRISIS IN ROUMANIA

RESIGNATION OF CABINET. / By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Paris, July 10. It is reported from Bucharest that Dr. Julius Maniu’s Cabinet has. resigned, A significant fact is that the boy King Michael of Roumania has been sent to Blet in Yugoslavia. He arrived there by the Orient express accompanied by his mother. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, writing recently, said: The usually well-informed "Pax” states that, despite all denials, the meeting between the Queen Mother of Roumania and her son Prince Carol, at the villa of the Grand Duke Cyril, at Dinard, at the end of March, has a serious political significance. According to this authority Queen Marie came to France with with the expressed intention of inducing Prince Carol to go back to Roumania, and of arranging the conditions on which he should ascend the throne.

Since the death of King Ferdinand '‘Pax” declares, things have been going from bad to wonse in the country. The Regency has proved utterly incapable of giving Roumania the stable government it needs, and Dr. Maniu’s Peasant Party, which is revolutionary in aspiration, has the added disadvantage from a national point of view that it haJ3 no clear ideas of the form of revolution it would like to adopt. The only alternative to the proclamation in the near future of a republic, probably fragile and vacillating, is that a grown man and not a child should ascend the throne, and the only possible king in sight is Prince Carol. "Pax” does not profess to know what was the outcome of the interview between the Prince and his mother. On the personal side, however, there appears no room to doubt that a complete reconciliation was brought about.