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The
National Christian Party (
Romanian:
Partidul Naţional Creştin) was a
Romanian
political party, the product of a union between
Octavian Goga's
National Agrarian Party and
A. C. Cuza's
National-Christian Defense League; a prominent member of the party was the philosopher
Nichifor Crainic. Founded in 1935, and led by Goga, it never received more than about 10% of the vote, but was chosen in December 1937 by
King Carol II to form a government. It ruled only 45 days, and was supplanted
February 10,
1938 by a royal
dictatorship.
Analysis
Alexander Easterman writes of the party's brief time in office, "Goga proclaimed his policy, openly and unashamed, as designed to rid Roumania of the
Jews. Indeed, he'd no other policy to offer; his government was quite simply
anti-Semitic and nothing else". Easterman hypothesizes that Carol had placed this party in power "to give his people a taste of
Fascism", hoping vainly that an ensuing reaction against such policies would sweep away not only the relatively weak National Christians but also the far stronger
Iron Guard. (Easterman, 1942, p. 258–259)
Goga's government began its term by repudiating Romania's obligations under the Minorities Treaty imposed upon it at the
1919 Paris Peace Conference; on
January 21,
1938, it promulgated a
decree that effectively stripped most Romanian Jews of their
citizenship by setting an impossibly high bar for documentary proof of such citizenship. Jewish businesses were closed down; the resulting disruption took down many non-Jewish businesses and caused massive
capital flight. (Easterman, 1942, p. 259)
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