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From Bulgaria last week CBS Correspondent Leigh White poured out a bagful of new horror stories, gathered from eyewitness accounts of Rumania's fortnight-old Iron Guard rebellion. He told of Green Shirt ruffians ranging through the ghetto of Bucharest, firing shops and synagogues, shooting Jews and Christians who refused to join the fun, beating some senseless and setting matches to their gasoline-soaked bodies. He told of one band of Jews herded into a slaughterhouse, forced to kneel at the chopping blocks where their throats were cut in a grisly parody of kosher butchering. From...
...last week Rumania had already passed from anarchy to firing-squad autarchy. Soldiers scoured Bucharest house by house, digging out the last die-hard rebels, confiscating some 5,000 rifles, revolvers and machine guns, cases of hand grenades and ammunition. Patrols were ordered to open fire on all civilians bearing arms and on any public meetings. In Bucharest alone 2,000 rebels were under arrest, awaiting summary sentence...
Though Iron Guard Leader Horia Sima was still unaccounted for, new whipping boys for the rebellion were turned up every day. One was Mihai Itsa-Marin, one-armed mayor of the Bucharest suburb of Serban-Voda. accused, with his wife, of 87 murders during the revolt, of concealing 70 truckloads of Iron Guard loot in his home - cotton, wool, silk, furniture, canned goods, jewelry, silverware...
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...
...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...