National-Christian Defense League

National-Christian Defense League

Liga Apărării Național Creștine
National-Christian Defense League Liga Apărării Național Creștine
President	A. C. Cuza
Secretary-General	Nichifor Crainic
Founder	A. C. Cuza; Nichifor Crainic; Nicolae Paulescu
Founded	4 March 1923
Dissolved	16 July 1935
Merged into	National Christian Party
Headquarters	Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Newspaper	Apărarea Națională
Paramilitary wing	Lăncieri
Ideology	Romanian ultranationalism; Antisemitism; Corporate statism
Political position	Far-right
Religion	Romanian Orthodoxy
Colours	Blue Yellow Red; Brown (customary)
Party flag
	Politics of Romania; Political parties; Elections;

The National-Christian Defense League (Romanian: Liga Apărării Național Creștine, LANC) was a far-right political party of Romania formed by A. C. Cuza.^[4]

^ Background and precursors to the Holocaust Jewish Virtual Library
^ Crainic, Programul statului etnocratic apud Sugar, Peter F. (1995). Eastern European Nationalism in the Twentieth-Century. American University Press. pp. 275–276. ISBN 978-1-879383-39-5.
^ Badie, Bertrand; Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Morlino, Leonardo, eds. (7 September 2011). International Encyclopedia of Political Science. SAGE Publications (published 2011). ISBN 9781483305394. Retrieved 9 September 2020. [...] fascist Italy [...] developed a state structure known as the corporate state with the ruling party acting as a mediator between 'corporations' making up the body of the nation. Similar designs were quite popular elsewhere in the 1930s. The most prominent examples were Estado Novo in Portugal (1932-1968) and Brazil (1937-1945), the Austrian Standestaat (1933-1938), and authoritarian experiments in Estonia, Romania, and some other countries of East and East-Central Europe,
^ Background and Precursors to the Holocaust, p. 14