Among the various leaders of the movements for national reconstruction that emerged during the interwar period, which I had the opportunity to meet, I remember Corneliu Codreanu, the leader of the Romanian Iron Guard, as one of the purest, most righteous, and noblest figures. It was in the spring of 1936 that I met him in Bucharest during a study trip I had undertaken to various European countries at the time.
Corneliu Codreanu impressed me from the outset with his appearance. Tall and well-built, he embodied the type of…