Bucharest, Apr. 18.
M. Armand Calinescu, Minister of Interior and the Cabinets "strong man," was given credit today for preventing Rumanian Fascist plotters from effecting a coup d'état here.
King Carol it was understood, approved'of M. Calinescu's order to round-up all suspects.
Two thousand Iron Guards were arrested while Gen. Jon Antonescu, Minister of War in M. Octavian Goga's short-lived pro-Fascist Cabinet, was "granted" thirty days' leave. He left the country for an undisclosed destination. It was believed he was sympathetic toward the Iron Guards, Among the arrested plotters were an engineer named Klime, President of the Iron Guards and successor to Gen. George Catacuzine, and the father of Capt. Cornelius Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guards and head of the group of plotters. All of the arrested men will be charged with plotting an armed march on Buch-atest to establish a Fascist dictatorship.—United Press.
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