ABSTRACT
WE NOW COME TO THE PERIOD OF INTENSIFIED ASSASSINATION, so symptomatic of the increasing effervescence amongst the extremist elements. Between November, 1930, and February, 1936, a period of a little more than five years, there were no less than nine assassinations of persons occupying high positions in the public life of the country and four attempts in which the victim was either wounded or escaped. One sinister element which distinguished this epidemic of assassinations from similar crimes in the past was the direct or indirect association with them of serving officers in the Army and Navy.
