Word: antonescu
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Since Carol's fall and Premier General Ion Antonescu's ascent to power, the Codreanist Guards have watched the results of German occupation with growing anger. Horia Sima, leader of the moderate Guardists, was looked on as a traitor for accepting the Vice Premiership. Antonescu himself only joined the Guard after his coup, was hooted down as the German cat's-paw who had given Transylvania to the Hungarians. For the extremist Guards did not fancy the Nazis at close quarters. Among other things for which the Germans were blamed was a 300-400% rise in food...
Pitchforks v. Tanks. At once Premier Antonescu demanded the resignation of Interior Minister General George Petrovicescu for failing to keep order, kicked all Iron Guardists out of the police force. Rebel Guardists barricaded themselves in the Bucharest Prefecture and began firing on the soldiers sent to drive them out. More Guardists in the streets went after Army tanks, jammed the treads with pitchforks and horse blankets. Soon troops opened artillery fire against the rebels, now barricaded in apartment houses, behind overturned busses and taxis...
Fighting mad, Antonescu took to the radio, slapped down an ultimatum to the rebels: "We must re-establish order and tranquillity in 24 hours, because I have not been and I do not want to be tomorrow the instrument of tyranny, or the bridge leading to anarchy." Troops marched into Bucharest's Greek colony, arrested ten of its leaders as hostages for Major Döring's assassin...
...once international capitalists too, had $50,000,000 of investments and other balances in the U. S., frozen (since Oct. 10) by Roosevelt decree. Hinting that the U. S. State Department might consent to a legitimate swap, Colonel Behn got Governor Constantinescu to talk it over with Premier General Antonescu...
...stands in the Berlin office of Adolf Hitler and on the Dictator's greeting card is shown with a flight of German bombers and fighter aircraft. Instead of ''Merry Christmas" the card reads "Our Winged Victory," Recipients: Il Duce, El Caudillo, Rumania's Antonescu...