Word: croix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Billboards burgeoned with flaming posters of the disasters threatening France from Russia on one side, from Germany on the other. Out of semiretirement, the Right ists lured Marshal Henri Phillippe Benoni Omer Joseph Petain, Hero of Verdun, to give his benediction to the Fascist Croix de Feu which, though it had no candidates of its own, backed all the Rightist groups...
...opinion everything international is mischievous, Everything national is useful and fertile. The Croix de Feu is one of the soundest elements in the country. It wants to defend the family." When election returns were counted last week Communism was not only in the circle of admissible doctrines, but definitely in the Chamber of Deputies with 72 seats...
...Frenchmen to the siren song of Fascism has formed the most violent political gesture of any recent election. For the victory of the Left can be explained only by the fact that the French have made up their minds once and for all that the propositions of the Croix de Feu and the parties of the "interests" hold no lure any longer. In holding the fort against the attacks of the reactionaries during the trying days of the past year, the People's Front took a daring chance and won. It is proof of the theory that even under...
...Neponset farm, left the University of Illinois during the War to join the Marines. At Belleau Wood he captured single-handed 27 Germans in a machine-gun nest, was later severely wounded, returned to the U. S. as a first lieutenant with the Distinguished Service Cross, the Croix de Guerre, the American Navy Medal. In 1926 he jumped from law school into State's Attorney Crowe's office as assistant prosecutor, curried favor among good Government groups by his fearless campaign against Chicago kidnappers, bombers, murderers. Despite the Democratic landslide in 1932, he made a good showing...
Again French soothsayers had an explanation for this. France's ablest Fascists are the Croix de Feu under the leadership of handsome but ineffective Colonel Frangois Casimir de la Rocque. Colonel de la Rocque has neither the plan nor the push to make a real dictator. Neither perhaps has André Tardieu. but he at least is a politician shrewd enough, if not brave enough, to know what to do with the Croix de Feu. if he ever gets his hands on it. A more hard-headed explanation: André Tardieu could not be elected...