Word: corneliu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were serving time for murder. He, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, führer of the green-shirted zealots who carried little bags of Rumanian soil tied around their necks, was under a ten-year sentence at hard labor for conspiring against his country with a "foreign Government"-i.e., Germany-and inciting to revolt. Fiery, handsome "Little Hitler"Codreanu might just as well have been in jail for murder, for he had a notorious reputation as a political assassin...
BERLIN--German Jews tonight were warned that they will suffer Nazi revenge for the slaying in Rumania of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the "Little Fuehrer" of Rumania's Fascist Iron Guard...
Among Europe's numerous Jew baiters one of the most virulent and violent is 38-year-old Rumanian Iron Guard Leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Leader Codreanu not only despises Jews, he hates democracy, Russia and his country's Little Entente allies, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia...
...developed that behind the conspiracy was a mixed combination of malcontents. Some of them were men of alien Transylvania which the Treaty of Trianon took from Hungary to add to Rumania. Others were Iron Guardsmen, deputized by their mystical and formidable leader, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Others were plain Lupescu-haters. Still others were merely against Premier Tatarescu. All that united them was hatred for the Sinaia Camarilla, the group of Lupescu's friends who meet with the King at the palace of Sinaia...
Quite possibly they were. France fears Nazi penetration into Rumania and looks with utmost suspicion on the blue-swastikaed Iron Guard of M. Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, mystic and fanatical "Rumanian Hitler." His slogan: "Jesus, King and country...