RUMANIA: Jailed F

Among Europe's numerous Jew baiters one of the most virulent and violent is 38-year-old Rumanian Iron Guard Leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Leader Codreanu not only despises Jews, he hates democracy, Russia and his country's Little Entente allies, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

Last week, in Bucharest, this champion hater faced a treason charge before a military tribunal of King Carol's officers. Charged with plotting to kidnap His Majesty and set up a Fascist state with himself as Führer and Adolf Hitler as an ally, Leader Codreanu was found guilty, sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Balkan justice being what it...

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