In late 1940, Carol's regime succumbed to the loss of Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and Northern Transylvania ("see Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Second Vienna Award"). The Iron Guard reemerged, sharing power with "Conducător" Ion Antonescu: a professional soldier, Antonescu agreed to preside over a dualistic "National Legionary State". "Sfarmă-Piatră" again switched its allegiance, proclaiming that Antonescu had taken on "the armor of predestination" and a seat among great European leaders, with Hitler, Mussolini, Portuguese "Estado Novo" founder António de Oliveira Salazar and Francisco Franco, the "Caudillo" of Nationalist Spain. Soon after, it saluted the Iron Guard as "the first organically created form in the modern Romanian state." Now led by Gregorian, the publication was a weekly, then a daily. It carried the subtitle "Săptamânal de luptă și doctrină românească" ("Weekly of Romanian combat and doctrine"), later changed to "Ziar de informație și luptă românească" ("Newspaper of Romanian information and combat").