Word: anti-fascist
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...Antonìo Maria Orìol y Urquijo, 63, an influential Basque financier who, as chief of the Council of State, is Spain's fourth-ranking official. Oriol was taken from his downtown Madrid office by gunmen from a leftist organization known as G.R.A.P.O. (First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Group), who at first demanded the release of 15, then all political prisoners from Spanish jails...
...Navy attempted to stage an anti-fascist coup that was nipped in the bud. The 240 officers and men on board the destroyer Velos sought political asylum in Italy and denounced the regime...
...Polytechnic uprising proved that the Greek people's rejection of the fascist regime and its methods was almost unanimous. It created the subjective preconditions for even higher levels of anti-fascist activity. It reaffirmed the belief of the Greeks that a new start had to be made in the political life of the country. Its foundation would have to be the overthrow of the junta and the eradication of all those political structures, inherited from the U.S.-dominated post-Civil War period in Greece, that made a mockery of democracy and that culminated in this terrorist regime. Above...
Died. Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, 84, former archbishop of Bologna, regarded by some Vatican watchers in 1963 as a possible successor to Pope John XXIII; in Bologna. As a parish priest in Genoa during World War II, Lercaro aided anti-Fascist partisans and refugees. As archbishop of Bologna (1952-68), he organized a group of young priests into the frati volanti (flying friars) to speak out at public rallies against the local Communist government. Lercaro also supported Vatican II reforms such as the vernacular Mass and argued that the church should end its "cultural colonialism" toward non-Europeans, especially in Africa...
Died. Attilio Piccioni, 83, anti-Fascist co-founder of Italy's Christian Democrat Party, who resigned as Foreign Minister in 1954 when his jazz-pianist son was falsely implicated in a scandal involving sex, narcotics and the death of a party girl, Wilma Montesi; in Rome...