The Archive · 1940

Display of Might

Not being armed, the Iron Guar-lists could hardly match the n artial picture presented. by fully armed troops of the regu! army One sensed the hand of the mier-dictator, Gen. Victor Antonescu, in the parade because of the dispel: of military might. This was intended to convey to the people that the Rumanian army would see te it that powers given the Iron Guardists to reorganize the country along totalitarian lines would be administered without excess.

The -boy King and his mother lo their special train at the royal s tion at 11 a.m. after spending the night there. Fifteeen minutes later they drove to the Cathedral in a carriage drawn by six white he and joined the nation in thanks gi ing prayers. Later they drove to ihe palace where they presented themselves to the crowds a half hour past ncon—United Press.

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