Word: stelescu
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Arrested as an accomplice, Codreanu denied any part in the assassination, but later, having been acquitted, bragged publicly that Iron Guard members had drawn lots to choose the assassin. Meanwhile, scores of students, policemen, professors, politicians became victims of Iron Guard terrorism. Last year one of his lieutenants, Jon Stelescu, left him, founded his own party, the Rumanian Crusaders. Shortly afterward, Apostate Stelescu was stabbed and shot to death. In a "heads-shall-roll" list discovered by Rumanian police, Stelescu's party had placed as No. 1, Jewish Magda Lupescu, the King's "favorite...
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