"Allowed to Win"?

To win an election may be bad luck if the outgoing government happens to be shoving into the lap of the new Premier a huge budgetary deficit. Four years ago Rumania's National Peasant Party won an election under such conditions, restored comparative financial order and was later ousted by King Carol and wastrel politicians who squandered what the Peasant Government had saved.

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 he had.

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