One year later, under the National Legionary State (the Iron Guard's government), Marinescu and Argeşanu, alongside other politicians, were executed in Jilava (September 1940); it was also at that time that the Călinescu family crypt in Curtea de Argeș was dynamited, while a bronze bust of him which awaited unveiling was chained and dragged through the streets of Pitești. Călinescu's wife Adela was required to hand all of her husband's personal documents, and, in a letter to "Conducător" Ion Antonescu, claimed to have been repeatedly harassed by agents of Siguranța Statului.