We are leading a patriotic national revival movement by legal methods and not by means of terrorism and anarchy, Codreanu, Danila, Totu, Motza, Lofter (said to be a natural son of Professor Cuza), and the other leaders of the antisemitic organisations, the Iron Guard and the Archangel Michael insisted to-day, when the trial was opened against them here, on a charge of plotting to overthrow the Government by force of arms and to establish an antisemitic dictatorship. It is possible, they admitted, that exaggerated language is used in some of our pamphlets, but we repudiate the accusation of anarchy brought against us.
Constantin Dumitrescu, the student who is under arrest for attempting to murder M. Socor, the editor of the “Adeverul”, was called as a witness and made a similar declaration.
The Public Prosecutor, M. Procop Dumitrescu, contended in the course of a long statement, however, that there is no ground whatever for doubting the guilt of the accused. They had committed a breach of the Marzescu Law (known as such because it was enacted by M. Marzescu when he was Minister of Justice in the Bratianu Government), which makes it a punishable offence to engage in incitement likely to lead to a breach of the peace, thus endangering the security of the State. He demanded that the court should find them guilty, and sentence them according to the gravity of their crimes.
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