English: Apus de soare (Sunset'), political cartoon in Furnica magazine. Factionalism in the dominant National Liberal Party: Dimitrie Sturdza, the aged and ill leader, is a sun setting on the horizon. Would-be successor Ion I. C. 'Ionel' Brtianu and his backer Vasile Morun are waiting for Sturdza to step down at any moment. In Furnica, the cartoon is published with a quotation from other newspapers, quoting French physicians to say that Sturdza is doing much better. Ionel, holding up the umbrella, complains that Sturdza tot apune i nu mai isprvete ('keeps on setting down but is never quite fi
English: Apus de soare (Sunset'), political cartoon in Furnica magazine. Factionalism in the dominant National Liberal Party: Dimitrie Sturdza, the aged and ill leader, is a sun setting on the horizon. Would-be successor Ion I. C. 'Ionel' Brtianu and his backer Vasile Morun are waiting for Sturdza to step down at any moment. In Furnica, the cartoon is published with a quotation from other newspapers, quoting French physicians to say that Sturdza is doing much better. Ionel, holding up the umbrella, complains that Sturdza tot apune i nu mai isprvete ('keeps on setting down but is never quite finished'). 12 February 1909 31 Ion Theodorescu-Sion - Apus de soare, Furnica, 12 feb 1909
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