Word: carolers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boris III of Bulgaria, Gustaf of Sweden, Carol II of Rumania...
...Christian of Denmark, Carol II of Rumania, Boris III of Bulgaria...
Biggest catch of all was a munitions maker named Nicolas Malaxa. Having parlayed a shoestring into a chain of arms factories and a partnership in Rumania's largest iron works, he found his way into the confidence of Magda Lupescu and King Carol. When the Nazis took over and Carol abdicated, Malaxa began putting his chips on the Iron Guard. Last week he found he had guessed wrong again, when Rumanian Army artillery blasted him out of his barricaded home and he was put on trial for supplying the rebels with arms...
...Corneliu turned the father's theorizing into practice, founded the wild-eyed, green-shirted Iron Guard-mystic, antiSemitic, pro-Nazi but also ferociously patriotic. When Corneliu was slain by King Carol's orders in 1938, canonized by his followers, old Ion Codreanu, then 66, felt duty bound to step from the background into active leadership of the most jingoistic faction of the Iron Guard...
...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...