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The National Christian Party was a Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
n political party
Political party

A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns....
, the product of a union between Octavian Goga
Octavian Goga

Octavian Goga was a Romanian politician, poetry, playwright, journalist, and translator....
's National Agrarian Party and A. C. Cuza
A. C. Cuza

A. C. Cuza was a Romanian far right politician and theorist....
's National-Christian Defense League
National-Christian Defense League

The National-Christian Defense League was a virulently anti-Semitic political party of Romania formed by A. C. Cuza.The group had its roots in the National Christian Union, formed in 1922 by Cuza and the famed physiologist Nicolae Paulescu....
; a prominent member of the party was the philosopher Nichifor Crainic
Nichifor Crainic

Nichifor Crainic was a Romanian writer, editor, philosopher, poet and theology. Crainic was also a professor of theology at the Bucharest Theological Seminary and the Chisinau Faculty of Theology....
. 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
King of Romania

King of the Roumanians rather than King of Romania was the official title of the ruler of the Kingdom of Romania from 1881 until 1947 when Romania was proclaimed a republic....
 Carol II
Carol II of Romania

Carol II reigned as King of Romania from June 8, 1930 until September 6, 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand of Romania, King of Romania, and his wife, Marie of Edinburgh, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Victoria of the United Kingdom....
 to form a government. It ruled only 45 days, and was supplanted February 10, 1938 by a royal dictatorship
Dictatorship

A dictatorship is usually defined as an Autocracy form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator, without hereditary ascension....
.

ander Easterman writes of the party's brief time in office, "Goga proclaimed his policy, openly and unashamed, as designed to rid Roumania of the Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
s.






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The National Christian Party was a Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
n political party
Political party

A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns....
, the product of a union between Octavian Goga
Octavian Goga

Octavian Goga was a Romanian politician, poetry, playwright, journalist, and translator....
's National Agrarian Party and A. C. Cuza
A. C. Cuza

A. C. Cuza was a Romanian far right politician and theorist....
's National-Christian Defense League
National-Christian Defense League

The National-Christian Defense League was a virulently anti-Semitic political party of Romania formed by A. C. Cuza.The group had its roots in the National Christian Union, formed in 1922 by Cuza and the famed physiologist Nicolae Paulescu....
; a prominent member of the party was the philosopher Nichifor Crainic
Nichifor Crainic

Nichifor Crainic was a Romanian writer, editor, philosopher, poet and theology. Crainic was also a professor of theology at the Bucharest Theological Seminary and the Chisinau Faculty of Theology....
. 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
King of Romania

King of the Roumanians rather than King of Romania was the official title of the ruler of the Kingdom of Romania from 1881 until 1947 when Romania was proclaimed a republic....
 Carol II
Carol II of Romania

Carol II reigned as King of Romania from June 8, 1930 until September 6, 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand of Romania, King of Romania, and his wife, Marie of Edinburgh, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Victoria of the United Kingdom....
 to form a government. It ruled only 45 days, and was supplanted February 10, 1938 by a royal dictatorship
Dictatorship

A dictatorship is usually defined as an Autocracy form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator, without hereditary ascension....
.

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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 Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
s. Indeed, he had no other policy to offer; his government was quite simply anti-Semitic
Anti-Semitism

Antisemitism is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews.This prejudice or hostility is usually characterized by a combination of Religion, Race , cultural and ethnic group biases....
 and nothing else". Easterman hypothesizes that Carol had placed this party in power "to give his people a taste of Fascism
Fascism

Fascism is a Political radicalism, Authoritarianism Nationalism ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or Race ....
", 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
Iron Guard

The Iron Guard is the name most commonly given in English to a Far-right ultra-Nationalism, antisemitic, and fascism movement and political party in Romania in the period from 1927 into the early part of World War II....
. (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
Paris Peace Conference, 1919

The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors in World War I to set the peace terms for Germany and other defeated nations, and to deal with the empires of the defeated powers following the Armistice of 1918....
; on January 21, 1938, it promulgated a decree
Decree

A decree is an order made by a head of state or head of government and having the force of law. The particular term used for this concept may vary from country to country — the Executive order s made by the president of the United States, for example, are decrees....
 that effectively stripped most Romanian Jews of their citizenship
Citizenship

Citizenship refers to a person's membership in a political community such as a country or city. It has different legal definitions in different countries....
 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
Capital flight

Capital flight, in economics, occurs when assets and/or money rapidly flow out of a country, due to an economic event that disturbs investors and causes them to lower their valuation of the assets in that country, or otherwise to lose confidence in its economic strength....
. (Easterman, 1942, p. 259)