Armand Calinescu, the prime minister of Rumania, was assassinated yesterday by members of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard who blocked the path of his car with a wooden cart and then pumped pistol shots into him and his bodyguards.
The assassins then shot their way into the radio station where they broadcast a proclamation claiming that "the death sentence on Calinescu has been executed".
They were then overpowered and last night taken to the spot where they had killed the prime minister. There, watched by a great crowd, they were shot. Their bodies will lie there for 24 hours.


22nd September 1939