Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When not mayoring in the village, Jammy Schmidt serves as clerk of the Chamber of Deputies in Paris. To honor the wedding, local hunters formed a shotgun guard of honor, blazed away with both barrels as the happy couple left the town hall. The rest of the day they spent throwing percussion caps under the legs of terrified horses and cows, drinking free toasts...
...Finally we are determined to save our country from Titulescu Bolshevism! The Iron Guard will fight Titulescu...
Rumanian politics are a good deal like a gypsy encampment and, paradoxically, last week the Rumanian Iron Guard, generally considered Statesman Titulescu's poisoners, had just made a most peculiar pact with Dr. Julius Maniu, the messiah of the Peasant Party. It was described as follows by Iron Guard Leader Cornelius Zelea Codreanu: "The fact is that Dr. Maniu is for democracy and I am opposed to it. In the minorities matter, Dr. Maniu is for justice and tolerance, and I am for justice and intolerance. There is no justice compelling us to share the rule of this country...
What the agreement uniting such opposites as the Peasant Party and the Iron Guard did do was suavely explained by Dr. Maniu. "The pact our two parties have made implies no abatement of their political hostility," he said. "It simply means that the Peasant Party and the Iron Guard will strive together to prevent the Government from dominating the elections...
...Chamber today a heavy majority of deputies are supporters of Premier George Tatarescu whose National Liberal Party is nearly as reactionary as the Iron Guard. Leader of the Opposition is the Peasant Party's active Ion Mihalache. Recently Premier Tatarescu resigned, King Carol asked M. Mihalache to try to form a Cabinet, and the Opposition leader refused with these hot words: "The King and M. Tatarescu were putting on a show-actually nothing was further from their intentions than to permit me to become Premier! The offer was made under impossible conditions." Thereupon M. Tatarescu was again named Premier...