NAZI VENGEANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 88, 13 April 1940, Page 7

NAZI VENGEANCE.

BUCHAREST BEAUTY. WEDS JEWISH STEEL KING. IRON GUARD WAITS SIX YEARS LONDON, March 18. Rumanian steel king Max Ausschnitt. greatest armaments power in the Balkans, whose sentence of 6ix years' imprisonment for fraud and infringement of currency regulations was revealed yesterday, is victim of the vengeance of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard—-because he married the most beautiful woman ill Bucharest, says the "Sunday Express." The story begins six years ago, whenl Ausschnitt, then 46. saw beautiful Li via Pordean and her father, vice-president i of the Rumanian Senate, on the Paris- 1 Bucharest express. Li via, 22 years old, was on her way home from a French finishing school.

j Ausschnitt introduced himself, and by the time the train reached Bucharest had fallen in love. He was already engaged to be married (according to report it was to a maharajah's daughter), but he wired breaking that romance. The wedding of Max Ausschnitt and Livia Pordean was fixed for Boxing Day, 1934; hundreds of wedding invitations were sent out. j

But Ausschnitt was of Jewish origin. The Iron Guard, Jew haters, seized" the opportunity of attacking him. | ' Porunca Yremiti," the extreme nationalist newspaper, started the campaign with an editorial that said:

"It would be a disgrace to the Rumanian nation if this marriage were allowed to take place. Do not let this red-haired, freckled bandit, this robberbaron, this highwayman, be allowed to buy a Rumanian maiden with his illgotten gains." I Street Row. The result was public demonstrations in the street in front of M. Pordean's house in Cluj whenever Max Ausschnitt visited his fiancee. Livia Pordean disappeared from home. So did Max Ausschnitt.

Iron Guard men were on the look out for them, suspecting that the wedding would be held quietly. But Max Aussclmitt and his fiancee cave them the slip. One afternoon in Januarv, 1930, a car stopped in front of the * residence of Roman Catholic bishop Dr. Pacha, in Timisoara. From it stepped Livia and her fiancee, who had adopted the Roman Catholic faith some weeks be fore. Their Wedding. In the bishop's private chapel "the robber baron"' and his bride were married. By the time the Iron Guard found out about the wedding, the newly married couple were on their way to Paris, London and the United States on a long honeymoon. At that time the Iron Guard, a banned organisation, could not openly do harm to the Ausschnitts. They had to wait six years for their vengeance. They have now made their peace with Carol, and Max Aussclmitt lias gone to imprisonment and disgrace.