placed on the friendship and business connections between Nixon and Malaxa. A government investigation dismissed the accusations, but, in 1979, his pro-Nazi past was again investigated by The Washington Post (which claimed that high-ranking American officials close to Malaxa had been involved in a cover-up). Suspicions regarding Malaxa's alleged communism, dismissed early in the era of McCarthyism by Rădescu, were investigated in 1958 by the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, and centered on rich gifts he had sent to Communist leaders such as Ana Pauker — Malaxa defended himself by arguing that these had been sent in order to ensure his family's safe passage into America. Having apparently never applied for American citizenship, Malaxa died at his residence in New Jersey. Malaxa Factory products Malaxa produced a version of the French Renault Chenillette *Malaxa, the car developed at Malaxa's plant See also FAUR, the later name of Malaxa's rolling stock plant I.O.R., optics company co-founded by Malaxa Notes References Petre Pandrea, "Cronică valahă cu inginerul Malaxa" ("Wallachian Chronicle with Engineer Malaxa"), in Magazin Istoric, May 2002. Francisco Veiga, Istoria Gărzii de Fier, 1919-1941: Mistica ultranaţionalismului ("History of the Iron Guard, 1919-1941: The Mistique of Ultra-Nationalism"), Bucharest, Humanitas, 1993 (Romanian-language version of the 1989 Spanish edition La mística del ultranacionalismo (Historia de la Guardia de Hierro) Rumania, 1919–1941, Bellaterra, Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ). 1884 births 1965 deaths 20th-century Romanian people 20th-century Romanian businesspeople 20th-century Romanian engineers Romanian industrialists Romanian fascists Romanian collaborators with Nazi Germany Romanian defectors Camarilla (Carol II of Romania) Anti-communism in the United States Richard Nixon Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni Romanian people of Greek descent Romanian expatriates in the United States People from Huși