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Show RUMANIA MOVES TO DICTATORSHIP UCHARESTTRumaniar DeeTSO INSI Octavian Got:-Rumania' nfw premier, took awlft and drastic dras-tic measures today to halt financial finan-cial opposition to his freshly inaugurated inaug-urated regime. The government issued a decree closing the Bucharest stock ex-1 change and strictly forbidding all financial transactions until Jan-I uary 10. " ! This action was taken after the stock market and other financial quartera had exhibited marked ner-" vousnesa as a result of tha choice of Goga for the premiership. ; At the same time. In another ' move seen as bringing Rumania 1 closer to a semifascist dictatorship, ; Goga, leader of the antisemitic ! Christian socialist party, suppressed i three liberal democratic newspa-1 pers. I This was Interpreted In diplo-1 matic circles as a move toward a virtually totalitarian regime. I Foreign observers believed that this trend would lead Rumania closer to nasi Germany and las-cist las-cist Italy and farther away from France and the' Little Entente. At the rniw time, tlieie weie lumuis the new cabinet might make aome move to restrict or even abolish the powers of the Rumanian parlia- j menu j In addition. It was understood that Goga la planning expropriation i of land owned by Jewa and can-1 cellation of all licenses held by Jewa to aell wine, spirits, tobacco, salt and other commodities. |