BĂTĂLIA ANGLIEI REFLECTATĂ ÎN PRESA LEGIONARĂ (SEPTEMBRIE 1940 - IANUARIE 1941)
THE BATTLE OF ENGLAND REFLECTED IN THE LEGIONARY MEDIA (SEPTEMBER 1940 – JANUARY 1941)

Summary/Abstract: The Battle of England, one of the most important and most dramatic fights of the Second World War, received an increased attention of media during the National-Legionary State. The article is based upon the research into three journals, Buna Vestire, Cuvantul and Axa, journals recognized, by an official announcement of the General Secretary, on December 19, 1940, as forming the Legionary media. Each edition of the above-mentioned journals describes in detail the recent events of the Anglo-German conflict. Thus, easy to anticipate, the attitude of these journals was clearly Germanophile and, of course, Anglophobic, the deployment of the hostilities always being presented in a light favorable to Germany. The anti-British attitude of the Romanian media caused even a protest addressed to the Foreign Office Sub Secretary of State, R. A. Buttler, Minister Plenipotentiary of Romania to London. The Legionary media was not short of direct attacks against England and against everything under British name, some passages being really caustic and vilifying. The anti-Semitic component of the Legionary Movement, its atavist aversion against Jews resulted in an enhancement of the hostility feelings, their transformation into hatred against the United Kingdom. Considering the Jew as the element of dissolution of any civilization, as a person manifesting a boundless selfishness and characterized by a ferocious materialism, and considering England one of the favorite places of universal Judaism, the three journals deemed the British Islands, after the collapse of France, the last bastion of the Judeo-masonry in Europe. The media during the National-Legionary State did not analyze the Anglo-German confrontation since its beginnings, for reasons easy to comprehend, and it did not detect the end of this combat, in order to record Germany’s first major fiasco in the Second World War. However, the media succeeded in detecting the most dramatic moments of this combat, as well as the most important changes in strategy.

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