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parliamentary walls somewhat quenched his fire, but even there he could not resist the histrionic urge, often dramatised the scene with a revolver flourish.

When his party was banned and his arrest ordered he escaped from Bucharest dressed ав а woman. Always beneath his green shirt he wore a casket containing "the sacred soil of Rumania,' which he displayed flamboyantly at the least pro- vocation.

Codreanu came into politics in Owing to the earlier departure the same way as he went out- of the steamer, the wedding of by a bullet. He first won notoriety. Miss Margaret Mignon Montgom-fourteen years ago when, a stu- erie McLay to Mr. William Hewitt dent of Jassy University, he shot fixed for Saturday, December 24, at dead the prefect who had arrest- 3.80 p.m., will now take place at St. ed a number of students for anti- John's Cathedral on Friday, De-Semitic outrages. |cember 23, at 2.30 p.m.

Acquitted of murder, he be- The reception following, as pre-came the idol of the wealthier viously arranged, at the Hong Kong students, broke with former Fas- Hotel.

cist leaders, formed his own Lea- gue of Archangel Michael, sub- Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec, 22, 1938. sequently the Iron Guard.

Sentenced last April to six months for an insulting letter to former Premier Iorga, his trial led to discovery of a plot against the Government, and with other conspirators he was sent down for ten years.*

RUMANIA

Rifles crackled into the misty dawn of Rumania's Sarat Forest a fortnight ago. Three hours later thirteen bodies were hastily buried in the ground of Bucharest prison.

Among them was that of tall, lithe, romantic Corneliu Cod- reanu, leader of Rumania's Fas- cist Iron Guard.

Like many other leaders, Cod- reanu was not a native of the country he aspired to govern. His father was named Zilinsky, a Polish-Hungarian. His

was German.

mother

With Codreanu out of the way, Official accounts said the thir- other totalitarian aspirants are teen prisoners, all Guardist mem-

now striving to win his estimat- bers, were shot while attempted two million adherents for the ing to escape while on their way King's own King Carol II. Party, by lorry from Ramnicu-Sarat, which aims at reconstruction, aid- where they were imprisoned

ed by British and French credits, after the abortive revolt last

on one-party lines. April, to the capital for examina- tion.

Since then, the former War Minister, General Antonescu, chief of the moderate Guardists,

home at Bucharest.

Guardists tell another story. Event and interpretations so soon after King Carol's return from was removed from command of the Third Army Corps, and con- his European tour, where, pro-fined to "house arrest" in his claims the controlled Rumanian Press, he covered himself with glory, left Bucharest tense and excited, revealed deep feeling simmered since the April revolt. Shooting was sequel to a long chain of political assassinations, | one of which was discussed when

Meanwhile, infuriated by the formed a "Battalion of Death," setback, younger Guardists have

-threaten reprisals against cer- tain Ministers early in January. The King has taken up the the returned King met his Ca-strate that a monarch

will demon- challenge, says he

born to binet the day before and instruct- rule may be as efficient as a dicta- ed Interior Minister Armand

tor born in more humble circum- Calinescu to take severe mea-

stances. sures against the Iron Guards for the murder of Stefanescu Goanga, Cluj University Rector. League Ex-Officials in

Before the Ministers in the Ro- Parliament yal Palace were a number of

reanu.

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"death sentences," documents in- There are now in the House of scribed in blood by fanatical Commons four ex-members of the Guardists. These, assert his fol- League of Nations Secretariat and lowers now, became the death one ex-member of the Interna- warrant of bold, beloved Cod-tional Labour Office. The four are Sir Arthur Salter, Mr. Noel- Hitherto conciliatory towards Baker, Mr. Harold Nicolson (all the King, but hating his Govern-original members of the staff), ments, Guardists now threaten a and Mr. Bartlett, who, like a form- contrary attitude, and Rumania er M.P., the late Reginald Ber- nervously awaits the next sensa-keley, was at the London Office tion in the scramble for power. of the League. The former I.L.O. Romantic medievalism sur-official in the House is Mr. W. S. rounded the career of Corneliu Sanders. It is an interesting, and Codreanu. In the wilds of Ruma- perhaps not altogether surpris- nia, like the late Ramsay Mac-ing, fact that Mr. Nicolson and Donald in more salubrious sur- Mr. Barlett have been among the roundings, he loved to pose in the most successful broadcasters on centre of drama..

international affairs.

To his party he gave a mixture Other former secretariat offi- of mysticism, intense anti-Semit-cials in London are the Spanish ism, and sheer brute force. Ambassador and the Norwegian Superstitious and imaginative Minister. The British Ambas- peasants he impressed by appear-sador in Rome was the first ing on a gaily caparisoned white Secretary General, and those who horse at their midnight. meet-have served under him in Geneva ings in the heart of the forest. are the Italian Ambassador in

His personality heightened Berlin, the Japanese Ambassador. the effect. His handsome figure in Paris, the

and a

covered in a brightly-hued medie- diplomat" (Mr. Vare),ing

val mantle, he would deliver a number of others who are now in fiery oration and disappear. That the Diplomatic Services.