Word: antonescu
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Correspondents in Switzerland, who get most of their news from tipsters and the radio, last week cabled reports that Premier Ion Antonescu had arrested 4,000 members of the fascist Iron Guard and executed 80 for a plot to overthrow his Government. The facts were...
...attempt to stem the rising tide of revolt, Adolf Hitler ordered a Balkan conference. Hitler, Mussolini, Admiral Horthy of Hungary, King Boris of Bulgaria and Premier General Ion Antonescu of Rumania were to meet in Vienna to try to straighten out the New Order in Southern Europe...
...Rumania Premier Antonescu had dismissed 15 generals, arrested several opposition leaders including Peasant Leader Ion Mihalache...
Rumania was flooded with an issue of 20-lei banknotes on which had been rubber-stamped the slogans "Peace with the Soviet! . . . Down with Antonescu and Hitler! . . . We want Transylvania! [TIME, March 30] . . . Out with the Germans!" Rumanian society from top to bottom was angered by puppet Premier General Ion Antonescu's granting of heavy German demands for food and troops...
Rumania's peasant leader Juliu Maniu and famed elder statesman Constantin Bratianu did their barking in the form of a memorandum to Premier Antonescu. "We must take precautions," they said, "so that our frontiers are protected and see to it that we regain Transylvania, of which we have been robbed. . . . If you are not convinced that the German Army is able to defeat the frequently annihilated Russian Army without the few precious Rumanian divisions, then you cannot believe at all in the final victory of Germany." A few days later Maniu supplied Antonescu with "proof" of Hungary...