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Thus attacked, King Carol, who has been ruling Rumania under a "state of siege" decree since the assassination of Premier Ion Duca by terrorists who openly made known that "Lupescu is next on our list" (TIME, Jan. 8). took council with Premier George Tatarescu who advised last week that the state of siege must be prolonged for another six months...
...Pricup, Carol's old friend and the man who arranged his flying trip from Paris to Bucharest and the throne in 1930. His henchmen were Rumania's Fascist, Jew-hating Iron Guard. Forty of them had been on trial for the murder of Premier Ion G. Duca last December, had been acquitted. Col. Pricup noted that fact with interest. Carol had not rewarded him nearly enough since 1930. Lupescu intrigued against him. Two months ago he joined the Iron Guard and began organizing the boys...
...Bucharest last week everyone was in terror of the Iron Guard. Had not a blue-swastikaed youth assassinated Premier Ion Duca (TIME, Jan. 8)? Had not another youngster burst in upon the Public Prosecutor as he was eating breakfast to scream: "I was an accomplice in Duca's assassination. Arrest me! Do your worst. Christ and Rumania!"? All Bucharest believed last week that the "Death List" of prominent Rumanians marked for assassination by the 200 terrorists of the Iron Guard was headed by M. Titulescu with Premier Tatarescu about half way down. It was a terrible time for Rumania...
...request that the gentleman known to us only as "The Voice of Roosevelt" be used only in that capacity. It is most incongruous, at least in our humble opinion, to hear the President in so lowly (though not mean) an occupation as sleigh driver to the late Ion Duca, martyred Premier of Rumania...
...Premier Duca was a member of the Liberal Party, oldtime machine of the famed Bratianu family and long bitterly opposed to the restoration of King Carol. Lately he was won over to the King's side and set valiantly to work suppressing anti-Semitism and a terrorist organization known as the Iron Guard. Beyond question it was the Iron Guard that killed him. Martial law was declared throughout the country; all army leaves were canceled; an iron-clad censorship was clapped on the Press. Detectives went out in squads, picking up every known member of the Iron Guard...