The Iron Guard, Rumanian Fascist group, “planned to assassinate Nicolas Titulescu” (former Foreign Minister) a witness testified today at the trial of 10 members of the organization accused of killing a dissident party member, Michael Stelescu, last summer, the Havas News Agency reported.
The witness said Stelescu had been expelled from the party but later was notified that he would be “taken back as soon as he had killed Titulescu.” Other declarations indicated Stelescu’s alleged murder resulted from Stelescu’s having formed a dissident group within the Iron Guard.
(Titulescu fell ill from toxic blood poisoning last year at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Unconfirmed rumors circulated for some time that he had been the victim of deliberate poisoning by political opponents.)
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