The antisemitic terrorist Iron Guard organisation is evading the Government order for its suppression by conducting its activities through the new Roumanian Nazi Party, which is organised on Hitlerist lines, and has been joined by a number of people who belonged to or were in close touch with the Social Democratic Party of Roumania, the “Zara Noastra”, the new daily started by M. Octavien Goga, former Minister of the Interior in the Averescu Government, writes. Codreanu and his friends are flushed with their new triumph at Tutova, where his father has been returned to Parliament, it proceeds, and they are using the new Nazi Party as their medium for further activities. The Iron Guard itself, it says, was organised on Hitlerist lines, and its formations were modelled on the Nazi storm troops. Its methods were the same as those of the German Nazis. Codreanu, it continues, has for some time been making efforts to bring about contact between his people and certain Social Democratic circles in the Bukovina. These efforts have now been successful, and negotiations are in progress with a leading Socialist in the Bukovina, who several years ago demonstrated his antisemitism by starting a “Christian Socialist Party”in the Bukovina.
The Roumanian Social Democratic Party asks that these revelations in the “Zara Noastra” should be treated with the utmost caution. The report can at most, it says, relate to a few individuals but not to any important Social Democratic group.
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