Word: ions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preparations had been noticeable for some time. Observers had seen camels in Bulgaria, transport planes in Greece, seagoing barges at the Danube's mouth. Correspondents had seen Rumania's Puppet Premier General Ion Antonescu stage a ceremonial farewell for German troops faring southeastward. The Greek islands had been seized. German torpedo boats had appeared in the Aegean, and Nazi "tourists" in their outlandish, paper-stiff civvies had appeared in Syria. The German-French agreement (see p. 27), officially opening Syria to the Nazis, had been signed and sealed...
DETROIT--The United Automobile Workers (CIO) today set May 15 for a strike against 61 plants of the General Motors Corporation, which has defense orders totalling $750,000,000, unless an agreement upon demands for wage increases and a un ion shop is reached by that time...
...week's end, with the Iron Guardists expelled from the Government and replaced by an Army-dominated Cabinet (only two civilians held portfolios), Premier General Ion Antonescu declared the complete restoration of order was at hand, announced his design for the future: at home, a Nazi-Fascist State; abroad, closer ties with the Axis...
...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...