Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumania had now been definitely nominated as next on Germany's list of bloodless conquests.* The Essener National-Zeitung announced that the Rumanian Nazi-shooting had been ordered by a Jewish and Masonic camarilla which included friends and relatives of Mme Lupescu. When 2,000 more Nazi-backed Iron Guardsmen were arrested in Rumania, Adolf Hitler and Carol Hohenzollern- who shook hands at Berchtesgaden a few weeks ago- had definitely parted ways...
...Those Iron Guards who fled from Rumania to Germany found a welcome not unlike that given to the Sudeten "refugees" in September. That Germany would threaten to invade Rumania was improbable, since the two have no common frontier. That Germany might foment a Nazi revolt in Rumania, under the slogan FIGHT AGAINST WORLD JEWRY, had become increasingly probable...
...quickest ways to accomplish something is to strike while the from is hot. No doubt the Committee for Pan-American Scholarships was aware of that fact. And yet the iron appears to be too hot. The College has the conviction that the drive is not quite straightforward, that it is almost a prank. Whether or not his is the case, the subject is far from inopportune, and for that reason it is regrettable that the timing is poor...
Around King Carol himself there was once an Iron Guard clique. At one time, when there was a split in the group, Leader Codreanu was financed by the King's red-haired mistress, Mme Magda Lupescu, herself part Jewish, and on one occasion he escaped arrest by hiding in her house. When the "Little Fiihrer"was put on trial last summer many were the notables who risked royal displeasure by testifying to the Leader's undoubted patriotism...
...that time the dictatorial bug had bitten King Carol. The Iron Guard leadership was dangerous and must at least be imprisoned. The official version of the killing was that the 14 were shot down while trying to escape from their guards as they were being transferred to another prison. But none but the most unsophisticated doubted that the Government of the Dictator-King had ordered the killing. A few hours later the Government ordered the ruthless suppression of all terrorism...