Word: blackshirt
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...Long Live America!" roared Blackshirt youths, rampaging through Rome, Turin, Milan and other cities, "Long Live Germany!" As the popularity of nonLeague States mounted and strong epithets against the British flew, Rome's haberdashery shop The Prince of Wales was forced to change its name to The Prince of Piedmont; the Hôtel d'Angleterre draped a Fascist banner over its name; gregarious Miss Babington removed from her window the provocative sign "English Teas"; and police averted the destruction by an enraged mob of the Eden Hotel-although aristocratic young Captain Eden is emphatically "not in trade...
Dearly does the Fascist mind love Fascist anniversaries. After marking time for a fortnight, Italy's armies in the north and south of Ethiopia waited last week till the dawn of the 13th anniversary of the Blackshirt March on Rome, then struck simultaneously...
...effectively organized against the corruption of Communism." More than a year ago he took up with Sir Oswald Mosley, vigorously pushed the Mosley "British Union of Fascists." Then came last June's Blood Purge in Germany, the instant revulsion of British sentiment against Naziism. Chuckleheaded Rothermere dropped Blackshirt Mosley like a hot potato, exclaiming: "The Blackshirts are too exotic for me. Good-by." More recently, as deftly as he could, he has transformed his praise of Hitler statesmanship into a warning against Hitler power. His Daily Mail has bristled with raucous articles entitled "The Coming Air War," "Armaments First...
Last week, in a libel suit against the Evening Star, Sir Oswald was telling a London jury that he had said no such thing. Nervous, irritable, proud, derisive under cross-questioning by pince-nezed Norman Birkett K. C., the No. 1 British Blackshirt burst out, "We have no machine guns, armored cars or airplanes but, considering our allegiance to the King, we should easily get them if the Government failed to resist a Communist attack." The jury approved Sir Oswald's candor by awarding him $25,000 damages...
Such an act is clearly Fascist. Its loudest champions have been Britain's No. 1 Blackshirt Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, Tory Die-Hard Winston Churchill and the Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, leather-lunged Lord "Boom" Trenchard. Against the Act gentle Quakers have industriously murmured. Socialist penfolk like H. G. Wells accuse His Majesty's Government of either having the jitters or consciously preparing...