Romania's King Carol, though previously a supporter of the National Peasants Party (led by Iuliu Maniu), appoints Octavian Goga, a former leader in the fascist Iron Guard, to form a government: it lasts only seven weeks.

Despite official persecution and its own terror tactics, the fascist Iron Guard—now renamed the All for the Fatherland Party—has by 1937 become the third largest party in the state ...