Il processo Maniu-Mihalache. Osservazioni e considerazioni della Legazione d‟Italia a Bucarest
Maniu-Mihalache Trial: Comments and Considerations of the Italian Legation in Bucharest

Summary/Abstract: Iuliu Maniu, Austro-Hungarian former soldier which left the imperial army to fight it, was the leader of National-Peasant Party and Romanian Prime Minister since 1928 to 1930 and from 1932 until 1933. Iuliu Maniu opposed the dictatorship of King Carol II encouraged and then fought against the General Antonescu‟s regime. Ion Mihalache founded the Peasant Party, which joined the National-Peasant Party on 1926. Mihalache became Vice-President of the National-Peasant Party. The National-Peasant Party didn‟t join the Petru Groza‟s government and it was declared as illegal by new Romanian authorities on 1947. Both Maniu and Mihalache died behind bars. This paper‟s purpose is to show how the Italian diplomatic mission in Bucharest, then of Legation Level, followed carefully and in a critical manner the developments of the trial to Iuliu Maniu and Ion Mihalache, constantly reporting to its superiorors. This process played a crucial role in the strengthening of the new communist regime in Romania. Documents get a new light both on the trial as seen from an external perspective and on Italian attitudes and feelings about the Romanian communist regime.

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