 In March of that year, Theodorescu, Arghezi, Slavici, Saniel Grossman and Dumitru Karnabatt were all taken into custody, pending trial.They stood accused of having placed themselves in direct service to the occupying power, for which Theodorescu received a five-year prison term.Theodorescu was also purged from the Romanian Writers' Society, based on the motion of its President, Mihail Dragomirescu.