The Washington times., 1934-03-07
STUDENTS LEAD
ANT|-SEM|T|C
CAMPAIGN i,
Young Rumanians Follow In
Ranks of Codreanu; French
Worried BY the Movement
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lived in the palace we started
down another road.
Promptly the guard came run
ming, and showing a revolver in
our stomachS he ordered us back
TO the military barracks.
The revolver shook as the
guard shouted.
It shook because the wings Of
the Archangel Gabriel were sha-
dowing the palace Of Carol, King
Of Rumania.
The wings of that angelic war
fior of the host of heaven were
shadowing all Rumania.
And the fantastic fact is that
the shadow Of the Arch Angel
GabrieTs wings has something to
do with the question Of how the
next war, If it comes, may turn
cut, for Germany or for France.
BroOded Deeply
Twelve years ago an 18-year-
old boy, son Of a teacher Of Ger
man in q secondary school in
Moldivia, brooded deeply over the
national reputation Of Rumania.
Presently, when he was 20-yearS-
old the boy had his big chance.
The Police Prefect Of Jassy had
Sternly suppressed rioting stu
dents.
The boy shot and killed the
Police Prefect of JasSy.
Unknown before, the boys name
now became a headline in the
newspapers. It was Cornelius
Zelea Codreanu.
A Mystic And A Hero
He was a mystic. He inf1amed
his comrades. And when he was
acquitted of the murder, Codreanu
became a hero Of the Rumanian
student world.
He went to Germany, studied a
while in the University Of Leipzig,
shifted the incense Of the growing
power of Hitlerism, and returned
a. his own country resolved to be-
come the Hitler of Rumania. He
was more romantic than Hitler.
His name for his party was 1.-THE
League of the Archangel Gabriel"
Nights when all the villages were
dark, Codreanu, now callet- "The
Capitano," would ride with his CO.
horts through the countryside.
Their horses were draped in white
and on the shoulders of the night
riders plumed white wings were
liked.
Tactics Didn't Work
After Codreanu had changed the
name Of his party to the "1ron
Guard" all the customary fixing
Of the polls b. the government
party failed to prevent the Capt.
t nos men from registering 71,702
votes, or nearly 2.62 per cent Of
the total.
Codreanu made another visit to
Germany in the Spring Of 1888.
His newspaper Calendarul
thereafter bloSsomed out.
The statutes of the guard were,
as one prominent Rumanian put
it to me. clearly worthy Of the
support Of any decent citizen"
They denounced corruption,
lauded honesty, swore to cleanse
the State and remake Rumania.
Shot and Killed
But most important for Europe,
the Iron Guard declared that
France was the real corruptor OF
the nation.
It was humiliating that Ruma-
mia should submit to French in
fluence.
Just before the elections the
new Prime Minister, Duca, dis
solved the Iron Guard. A fort
night later he was shot and killed
by an Iron Guard student on q
railroad station platform.
Capitano Condreanu fled.
From a score of Rumanians
came the same opinion:
'"This Is not the end, but the
beginning Of the Iron Guard"
And this at a time when the
police with a thousand or more
Iron Guard prisoners, are using
all the well-known methods of
the Balkan third degree to break
their spirits
Bad News for France
This is bad news for France.
In the files Of the Iron Guard
prisoners, and from their own
enforced confessions, the Sigur-
ANA found death list. It con-
tanned certainly the names of
Foreign Minister Titulescu, of a
series of the kings most init
mate friends. and included that
of Madame Magda Lupescu, for
whom Carol gave UP his kingdom
once.
The Iron Guard objected to
Madame Lupescu because she is
Jewish. They objected to Titu-
lescu because he is q friend OF
France. a leading figure in the
little entente.
Tituescu is back in the cabi'
net.
Rumania Is stin Q member Of
the little entente.
But France is sceptical. Should
war come in Europe. where would
pI,voania stand?