Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A lokacin, Călinescu ya shirya tsauraran matakai na kasa da kasa a kan Iron Guard, ciki har da liquidation na zahiri na Codreanu. Wannan ya haifar da jerin hare-haren ramuwar gayya, wanda ya kai ga watan Satumbar 1939, lokacin da wata tawagar kisan gilla ta Guardist ta yi nasarar kashe Călinescu. A watan Nuwamba, Carol ya yi ƙoƙari na ƙarshe don kafa "haɗin kan ƙasa" a kusa da FRN, yana gayyatar Maniu ya shiga; an yi watsi da tayin. Mihalache yana da kujera a Majalisar Crown a farkon 1940, mai yiwuwa saboda yin hakan ya rage matsin lamba ga abokinsa Madgearu, wanda Carol ya sanya a karkashin kama. Rikicin siyasa ya fara a Romania a watan Yunin 1940, lokacin da gwamnatin FRN ta ba da umarnin Soviet kuma ta janye gwamnatinta daga Bessarabia
Ka yi haƙuri. Maniu ya ambaci wannan a matsayin mamayewar Soviet, kuma ya yi imanin cewa ya kamata sojojin su yi tsayayya. A watan Agusta 1940, bayan tabbatarwa daga Nazi Jamus da Tarayyar Soviet, Regency Hungary ta nemi Romania ta yi shawarwari game da rabon yankuna a Transylvania. Maniu ya ba da sanarwar zanga-zangar jama'a, yana neman kada a rage mutuncin yankin.