13 Facts About Nicolae Penescu

Nicolae Penescu was a Romanian lawyer and politician.

Nicolae Penescu began his political career by joining the National Peasants' Party.

Nicolae Penescu held positions at the Bucharest Chamber of Commerce and Banca Commerciale Italiana, and headed Creditul Romanesc.

Nicolae Penescu decided to hold commune-level elections, thought to be impossible as long as disagreement over the prefects continued.

Nicolae Penescu Radescu was the next prime minister as well as interim interior minister.

In December 1944, Nicolae Penescu was elected secretary general of the PNT, replacing Ghita Popp.

Nicolae Penescu was arrested together with other PNT leaders as well as his wife on 14 July 1947, while boarding an airplane, as part of the Tamadau Affair.

Nicolae Penescu was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and two years' deprivation of civic rights.

Nicolae Penescu was brought back to Bucharest during the investigation of Lucretiu Patrascanu and used as a prosecution witness against him.

In 1968, when the French president, Charles de Gaulle, visited Romania, one of the delegation members was the country's prime minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, whose doctoral colleague Nicolae Penescu had been in Paris.

The prime minister intervened on his behalf and Nicolae Penescu received approval to visit France for six months.

Nicolae Penescu founded a Romanian National Council in 1978, although his activities were undermined by rivals within the exile community.

Nicolae Penescu refused, saying this would have abetted Ceausescu's regime.