Favoring white regimentals with lots of gold galloons for himself, King Carol II of Rumania loves a uniform as dearly as any green-shirted Iron Guard Fascist. When he outlawed the Iron Guard and his police liquidated its leaders ("while attempting to escape"), King Carol promptly set up his Renascence Front, prescribed a natty leather-belted, dark blue uniform for this new totalitarian party of which he is the royal Führer. Four senators, members of the former National Peasant Party who tried to crash King Carol's overwhelmingly Renascence senate in mufti last week were turned away, on orders from the senate...
RUMANIA: New Uniforms, New President
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