Word: antifasciste
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...soon made contact with the antifascist underground. It consists, he reports, of two main groups-the Matteotti group and the Communist-Anarchist group. "The Matteotti is in fact a people's front, for it embraces political persuasions ranging from Social Democrats on the left over to and including the aristocracy on the right. . . . It is no longer a movement for any set of principles as much as against the regime. . . . By the time I arrived in Italy, its membership of three hundred thousand reached into Fascist circles, into the Questura, and especially into the student body of Italy...
...quip of the moment was: "If England wins, we are losers; if Germany wins, we are lost." The underground Matteotti society circulated an antiFascist, anti-German newspaper. Students toyed with Rivoluzionario groups; older antiFascists were increasingly active in the Free Italy secret organization directed in the U.S. by cultured, white-bearded Count Sforza...
...Hungarian antifascist, Habe enlisted in France's 21st Foreign Volunteers at the outbreak of the war. In May 1940 his regiment, stationed in Alsace, was ordered west. In Ardennes they held the front entrusted to them for three weeks, then joined the general retreat. A little south of Domrémy, on June 21, they received orders to lay down their arms; France had sued for armistice. Habe was then captured by Germans, was imprisoned with 22,000 other troops at Dieuze, escaped in August into Unoccupied France...
...eyed, Communistic little Vicente Lombardo Toledano was squeezed out of the secretaryship of the Government-supporting CTM (Confederation of Mexican Labor), probably to be replaced by non-Communistic Fidel Velásquez. Organizer of the CTM in 1936, nimble-minded Lombardo returned from Russia beating the Stalinist drum, vigorously antiFascist. When Moscow shifted so did he, screaming denunciation of the U. S., President Roosevelt, Great Britain and the Monroe Doctrine without losing a beat. Four months ago, under pressure from President Cárdenas, he changed horses again, unblushingly declared: "There was never truer friendship between North American and Latin...
...heard rumors of a German-Russian plan to dismember Poland. . . . Thunderstruck, Premier Molotov gasped, drew back, while the veins of his forehead stood out in his apoplectic fury: this, he reminded his visitor, was the Soviet of Socialist Republics, the fatherland of the toiling masses, the vanguard of the antifascist struggle; that any ambassador could believe such a slander of the Socialist State made him, Molotov, wonder if he was the proper ambassador to be accredited to it. The Chinese Ambassador left, to read in Pravda the next day the laconic notice that the agreement had been made. Molotov hadn...