Word: codreanu
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...voting power, he could not muster a majority. Last fortnight's elections showed that the three strongest parties in Rumania are: the National Liberal Party of beaten Tatarescu, the National Peasant Party of wild-eyed Julius Maniu, the Nazi-sup-ported Iron Guard of Zelea Codreanu. All three were objectionable last week: the National Liberal Party because they were damned as pro-French in a country where Nazi influence is increasing daily; the radical National Peasant Party because it offends King Carol; and the Fascist Iron Guard because it has frequently threatened the King's henna-haired Magda...
...good deal like a gypsy encampment and, paradoxically, last week the Rumanian Iron Guard, generally considered Statesman Titulescu's poisoners, had just made a most peculiar pact with Dr. Julius Maniu, the messiah of the Peasant Party. It was described as follows by Iron Guard Leader Cornelius Zelea Codreanu: "The fact is that Dr. Maniu is for democracy and I am opposed to it. In the minorities matter, Dr. Maniu is for justice and tolerance, and I am for justice and intolerance. There is no justice compelling us to share the rule of this country with Jews...
...developed that behind the conspiracy was a mixed combination of malcontents. Some of them were men of alien Transylvania which the Treaty of Trianon took from Hungary to add to Rumania. Others were Iron Guardsmen, deputized by their mystical and formidable leader, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Others were plain Lupescu-haters. Still others were merely against Premier Tatarescu. All that united them was hatred for the Sinaia Camarilla, the group of Lupescu's friends who meet with the King at the palace of Sinaia...
Quite possibly they were. France fears Nazi penetration into Rumania and looks with utmost suspicion on the blue-swastikaed Iron Guard of M. Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, mystic and fanatical "Rumanian Hitler." His slogan: "Jesus, King and country...