1. University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterniary Medicine of Bucharest
Name:Munteanu Raluca Specialization:IEA Groupe:8103
Coordinating teacher:Mihai Daniel Frumuselu
IULIU MANIU
Keywords: Fall,Transilvania,politicians,influence
Iuliu Maniu was born in January 8, 1873. Leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, he served as
Prime Minister of Romania for three terms during 1928–1933, and, with Ion Mihalache, co-founded the National Peasants' Party. Maniu was born
to an ethnic Romanian family in Austria-Hungary his parents were Ioan Maniu and Clara Maniu. He finished the Calvinist College in Zalău in
1890, and studied Law at the Franz Joseph University, then at the University of Budapest and that of Vienna, being awarded the doctorate in 1896.
Together with such figures as Vasile Goldi , Gheorghe Pop de Băse ti, the Romanian Orthodox cleric Miron Cristea, and Alexandru Vaida-ș ș
Voevod, he engaged in an intensive unionist campaign, leading to the Alba Iulia gathering on December 1, 1918 (during which Romanians
demanded separation from Austria-Hungary). On December 2, Maniu became head of Transylvania's Directory Council - a position equivalent to
interim governorship.
His party became the predilect target of PCR hostility. After the fall of Communism, some authors went as far as to claim that the PN hadȚ
actually won the election, but was denied victory due to widespread electoral fraud on the part of the pro-Communist Petru Groza government.
In a telegram to the State Department, the US representative in Romania, Burton Berry, wrote:
"The Department well knows that Maniu has stood out boldly as a champion of pro-Allied action and sentiment in Rumania even during the dark
days of the Antonescu dictatorship. He has an enormous political following in the country and I believe the respect in which all Rumanians hold
him eclipses that held for any other Rumanian. Because of what he has been and what he is it seems important that he be preserved from slipping
into sharing the general conviction that the dissolution of the Rumanian state is now in progress."
The party was outlawed in July 1947. That month, Ion Mihalache was alleged to have attempted to flee the country in an airplane which landed at
Tămădău, in order to establish a government in exile (see Tămădău Affair). This was judged as an act of treason, and both Maniu and Mihalache
faced a kangaroo court that sentenced them to life imprisonment in a hard labour prison; given their advanced age, this amounted to a death
sentence. The show trial, signaling the suppression of opposition groups, was a significant step towards the establishment of an undisguised
Communist regime in Romania.
Iuliu Maniu died in 1953 in Sighet prison, and his body was thrown into the common grave in the courtyard..
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