RUMANIAN IRON GUARD ACTIVITIES IN SPAIN

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
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• Publication Date: April 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Rumanian Iron Guard Activities iD
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1. There are presently about- thr4; hundred to four hundred Rumanials in Spain,
scattered throughout the pree'ecea. The colony in ijadrid consists of about.
fifty to sixty Of the lattl Gheorghe Antoniade is the leader of the
domecratio (or National Comm ttee) group. The Iron Guardists, edle are more
numerous in ILadricleare headel by Prince ILhail Sturdza.. Also active in the
Iron Surrd group are Idiheil Fotin .4neecu and George Dscatescu. Necatesee,
recently married to daugh'er of one Rubio, the "chef de cabinet" of Luis
Carreeo Blanco, and is reprtedly to be in very Food stardlne weth Diarce.
2. The Iron Guard group inLtdrid has managed to dominate Nicolas Dieltresne, a
formee Rumanian ,,inister in eiaerid who has a semi-official diplomatic stetus
with the Spanish Foreie Liinistry as the diplomatic representative of the
Rumanian exiles. Dieileescu professes to be a monarchist, but has not been given
any recceration by Kir; Liihai or by ,the Rumanian National Committee, I.e. actual
feet. he leans toward the Iron Guard, and being above all a snob, took delight
in eecorting Prince iecolao around iiadrid when the latter visited Spain late
last spring (11?50), The Swiss, who are the custodiene of the Vans and. eeale
of the old Rumaniae Legation, have not taken cognizance of Dimitrescu's new
status, and have a, e turned over any Legation reeords or property to him,
3, Nicolae is on bar' terms with both his brother, ex-Kine Carol, and his nephew,
exiled King Jihge, and is in bed financial straits, Among other ehings, he was
tryine to zell .0me murals in. Spain on his last triee He has no eupeort ameng
those celled eaarians who adhere in principle to tlia National Committee,
ti r iron (-uardistes are on bad terms with all the other exile
Aumahans?, f an also be said that they need a leader with more prestieo
a more respetaele facade than a mar. such as Sturdea. Hence the lialeoe.
leeeweee eh, prince in search of a following and the political gr-up in seareh
of a :7'ivu- was a natural one, Egeally loeical was the choice of Se-in
as the criter for their activity. There vas a eoesiderable numbee of free
Guardesf . already well established there, the political atmosphere was -not
unfrq , and most important of all, through certain cceteets in the ;;oanish
:?;overmi, it, a certain amount of official support could be counted upon. Tbe
frien(j..nesS of Prat y Santee of the Foreign .1.,;,inistry toward the eron Guerd,
is ir filthough Prat is the head of the Section of the Amerieas
in t:) r:A)reignJinisury, astera .burope and partieularly Rumania has alweee
been 13s specialty (he was secretary of legation and later 14ealster to Rumania,
and ee aks the laneuaee fluently).
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fret loves intrigue and likes the iron Cuardists, He ig especialy to
turdza, wao may even be a die,mit relative. When Prat does ahvthin-
tho Iron Guardista, he nAtul-ally does pet necessarily revesevt, Foro,,a
policy, but his position imearts an official aura to al/ hiE
truth is probably that no one else in the Forf4ie4n Iinisty know!, cnoo-3-: -hcut
Polmanian nel2tSos to meddle with tho exile situation, and Prat ler a fr.' :: hind,
kesr,-)si eontact with, anc is friendlv to, Antoniado, tut he sharol t1-1
Iron Guard opinion that the National Comm:tteo is worthless became VLie
GuariPs conelusion,,
7. .Frat was undoubtedly the force behind the Frantino: of semi-officiza rgc:1 nition
to DiTpitrescu. he has also probably helped various Iron Guerditts to
rrain, Although it in reported that the nuxber who have arrived reoen'cli ie not
iurre. Apparentl:r Sturdza and the other Cuardists usnt out a letter Cue-Olots.1
in otk,er parts of Europe advising them to come to Spain, ane asnurine t, m that
they woula be asnistedo
,Ueverel iron Guardints of some prominence
as a result of thi.s letter oitod in the pr
are George Domitreesu and Vasile iassinski
.jear old American woman and professes the
,;olitioal Activity.
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have shown up in. Ladrid, ap-hntly
scedinp,: peraraph. TLs 7-cnort
Sttrcdma recently marrioe LO
intention of vil:_thorari
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