Liga Apărării Naţional Creştine în Bucovina, 1926-1928. Între organizare şi scindare
The National-Christian Defence League in Bukovina, 1926-1928. An organisation between building and splitting

Summary/Abstract: The National-Christian Defence League reached its peak between 1926-1927, without becoming a major decisive political force for the country’s destiny. Four Bucovina representatives have managed to get in the Romanian Parliament. But the lack of experience took its tole on them, making them unable to build-up a coherent political message. Moreover, the dissidences and conflicts between 1927-1928 led to the League entering (into) a shadow cone. The Statutory N.C.D.L. (the National-Christian Defence League) Organisation attracted big personalities of the time, such as Ion Zelea Codreanu or Traian Brăileanu. Even so, the statutory organization had an ephemeral existence, not having been able to obtain new electoral success. Not even the local leaders, such as Nichifor Robu, Gheorghe Cârlan or Ioan Iliuţ, who stood by A.C. Cuza, were able to win the electorate. The 1927’s electoral failure, led to the N.C.D.L.’s restructuring . The unity’s remake, in 1928, was unsolid, many of the old activists having already lost their trust. The “Cuza” anti-Semitism found votaries, but situated the League only on a position of chasing/tracing the big Romanian political parties. The existence of many ethnic communities, especially those of Jewish in the country’s northern region province, allowed anti-Semitism to spread itself. Still, the realities of the Romanian society in the past century’s third decade were much more complex and have not found their solution in the anti-Semitism. In this context, only some spectacular events or a new movement could have brought the Romanian Right towards electorate conquest.

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