FILIPESCU, NICHOLAS (1862-1916), Rumanian politi cian, was born at Bucharest and studied in Paris and Geneva. He entered the Chamber of Deputies in 1885 as a member of the Con servative Party, to which his interests, as a rich landowner, at tached him. In 1910 he became the leader of the younger Con servatives, but an unfortunate personal feud with Palle Jonescu largely paralysed his activities, and ended in the secession of Jonescu, who formed the new Conservative-Democrat Govern ment. As minister of war in the Carp cabinet of 191o, Filipescu undertook a reorganization of the Rumanian army on a large scale. In 1913 he and Carp, then in the Opposition, were largely respon sible by their agitation for Rumania's participation in the Second Balkan War and subsequent acquisition of Silistria. On the out break of the World War Filipescu, with his followers, demanded Rumania's armed intervention on the side of the Allies. The re sult was a split between Filipescu and Marghiloman's German ophile party, the former joining Take Jonescu's group. He lived to see the triumph of his policy, but not the subsequent debacle, dying at Bucharest in 1916.