The Nazi press, its wrath mounting over Rumania’s ruthless destruction of the underground “Iron Guard,” warned the Bucharest Government tonight to bear in mind the events that precipitated the Spanish civil war.
Newspaper editorials were occasioned by the latest development in the Rumanian situation — the killing yesterday of three more members of the banned pro-Fascist organization. As was the case last Wednesday when Iron Guard leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and 13 of his followers were mowed down by police bullets, Bucharest officials said the men were shot while trying to escape their escort of gendarmes.
The Boersenzeitung of Berlin reminded Rumania that the assassination of Jose Calvo Sotelo, rightist member of the Madrid Parliament, set the spark to the Spanish civil war. D.N.B., the official German News Agency, retailed violent comments from the extreme right Polish and Hungarian press. Analyzing these reports, it concluded that “the Rumanian population’s agitation is increasing hourly.”
Marshal Hermann Goering’s organ, the National Zeitung of Essen, ironically remarked on the Rumanian Government’s “use of the formula ‘shot while trying to escape.'” It charged Bucharest with maintaining a “reign of terror” and with deliberately perpetrating “these brutal assassinations” to maintain the present “dictatorship.”
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