 On September 5, King Carol II proposed to General (later Marshal) Ion Antonescu, the chief of the Army, to form a new government.Antonescu's first act was to force the King to abdicate (for the fourth and last time) and flee Romania.An alliance government
was formed by Ion Antonescu with remnants of the Iron Guard Legionary Movement (partly destroyed in 1938; "see The Iron Guard"), an antisemitic fascist party, and took power on September 6, 1940.