ROUMANIAN AFFAIRS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 5

ROUMANIAN AFFAIRS

NO FASCISTS.

STERN REPRESSION,

Extremists Condemned By

Prime Minister,

Press Association—Copyright. (Received 2 p.m.) Bucharest, February 23.

After reconstructing the Cabinet and becoming his own Minister ot the Interior, M. Tataretcu announced a policy of stern repression of the Rightist and Extremist elemnsds. The leaders of the anti-Semitic Students’ Association have already been arrested! and it is expected that his next move will be the suppression of the Fascist group known as "All for the Fatherland.” The Rumanian Ministers in Rome and Berlin have been summoned home for a conference, but it is believed that they will not return until the Italian and German Ministers are recalled for their action in attending the funeral of two Rumanian Iron Guards.

M. Tatarescu has previously declared his opposition to Nazi or Fascist interference in Rumanian domestic affairs and roundly condemned it) Parliament any such action. THht speech followed the participation of the German, Italian, Polish, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish Ministers in the funeral of two Iron Guards killed in fighting for General Franco in Spain. That was regarded as a breach ot diplomatic etiquette. The funeral developed into a political demonttra tion, owing to an anti-democratic display by Right-Wing elements.