Word: horia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
Sour-faced Premier General Ion ('"Red Dog") Antonescu and Vice Premier and Iron Guard Leader Horia Sima spoke of "severe measures" to punish the extremist Green Shirts, but their words were scarcely in print when blood lust rushed through the whole disaster-sickened country. Onetime Premier Professor Nicolas lorga, tutor of King Carol and eminent historian, "the teacher of the nation," was found dead on the outskirts of the oil fields near his country home at Valeni-de-Munte. George Bratianu, scion of the dynasty which secured Rumania its independence, kept it going through World War I, was reported...
...Horia Sima, leader of Rumania's Nazis-tic Iron Guard, last week made a public speech accusing Hungarians of butchering 447 Rumanians in North Transylvania, of cutting out tongues, burning, torturing. The limit, said Guardsman Sima, had been reached...
...That which the Führer has accomplished for Germany our King has accomplished for us," cried Propaganda Minister Constantino Giurescu. Iron Guard Leader Horia Sima, last month an exile in Germany, now Carol's pal, was more realistic. Commanding his comrades to join Führer Hohenzollern's Party, he sighed: "The whole world is going topsyturvy. We are going to have a new arrangement of countries and peoples. It is possible our country will meet with misfortune. The King's new Party will enable us to face the future...