The Archive · 1938

Police Statement

It is alleged that Codreanu planned to establish a Nazi dictatorship, ae: Jeording to the police, who state' that they have found evidence of the [existence of "Iron Guard" ells in \various factories, The police have also acquired possession of a circular letter addressed by Codreanu to local leaders of dhe "Iron Guard" throughout Rumania in which he makes bitter attacks against the Government and the Patriarch who is also Premier, "Can you put up any longer with these old ghosts: these old men with their brains dried up?" the letter We shall no longer make We shall simply take what. belongs to us,"

The letter also includes orders to ron Guard Legionaries to obtain new uniforms and weapons and await "the right moment" for a "march on Bucharest, modelled on Mussolini's march on' Rome."

Another circular addressed to the "tron Guard" Legionaries, after quot-jing the "Horst Wessel" song, Nazi /Germany's second national anthem, exhorts the Legionaries to. "seize to weapons, axes and scythes, and beat the dogs down, The police have been' watching JCodeanu for some months, He was Jarrested after the discovery' of letters written by him among the belongings, of four monks.

It is believed that the Government is now determined to deal drastically with "the "Iron Guard," possibly Jsending Codreanu to "Snake Island," the barren rock in the Black Sen, [where Rumania's political offenders ism and Communism Washington, Ape. 14, The United States Is resolved to Jmaintain peace in the Americas, and will tolerate no attacks on" the principles of "democratic liberty" Linking the two continents, President, Roosevelt warned in a speech today.

the Governing Board of the Pan-American Union, The peoples of the Western Hemisphere, Mr. Roosevelt declared, "must! be prepared to sacrifice their lives: to preserve democracy and their in-

The President reiterated that_ the United States "good. nelghbour® polley" governs her relations with Central and South American nations, Sind. served. notice that the United States is determined that" neither Fasclem nor' Communism. shall owed a foothold in either of the The 21 American republics face a ave test" ina world torn "ith {malt and_ conflicting. doctrines. trid the horrors of armed confit Roosevelt sold He rapped the intolerance and the tactics of certain unnamed aggressors, declared that America will proudly present 10. the rest of the World demonstration that the rule London, Apr. 15.

Remarkable allegations of German propaganda in England were made today by Mr. Geoffrey Mander, Opposition Liberal member for' East Wolverhampton, in the House of Commons before the Easter recess vuntily April 26, Among other things, Mr. Mander alleged that educated German girls, after receiving training in propaganda in Germany, came to England, many of them through evasion of the law. Some of the girls were spite many of them were in the service of the families of emeers at Alder~ shot and elsewhere, Germans in England, Mr, Mander alleged,. were practically forced to Join certain associations, and if they failed {0 report regularly, or acted in any way which. was considered unfriendly or critical of the Nazi regime, might lose their property in. Germany, while their relatives and friends in Germany might be persecute fed, Gestapo agents, he alleged, masqueraded a3 refugees, and English firms engaged in business with Get many were threatened with the loss Of this business unless they dismissed their German-Jewish em= ployees.

Replying for the Government, Mr. Geottvey Lloyd, Undec-Secretary of Stale for Home Affairs, assured Mr, Mander that German girls could not take up domestic service in England without permission The Home OMice, he said, would examine the information provided by Mr, Mander.

Mr. Lloyd emphasized that every alien arriving in England, including refugees, was carefully "examined, activities ut with the an alien was found engaging in

pose for which he had been "admitted, steps would be taken, if necessary, to get rid of him, As to whether there was any surveillance of Germans in England by foreign agents, the position, Mr, Lloyd continued,—was being' very closely watched, and if there were any evidence that unlawful acts were being committed, action would certainly be taken.—Reuter, Soviets Lodge Protest Moscow, Apr. 12.

The Soviet Embassy in! Tokyo has been instructed to protest to. the [Japanese Government against the alleged violation yesterday of the Soviet frontier by Japanese planes, is stated that eleven Japanese planes flow several miles. yesterday to Soviet territory in the Grodehove region, in Eastern Siberia, an were driven off by Soviet pursuit

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