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...Political Croix...
Sirs: As a reader of TIME and a member of the League known as the Croix de Feu, I write to protest against the term ''fascist" as applied to that organization or to its Chief, Lieut. Colonel de La Rocque [TIME, Nov. 4]. The Croix de Feu came into existence shortly after the end of the World War, as did many associations of veterans. In contrast to other similar organizations, however, the Croix de Feu restricted its membership to a selected group of men, in that it not only required that its members had fought...
sirs, . . . The Croix de Feu is entirely unpolitical, has no "platform" and Colonel de La Rocque has no aspirations of dictatorship a la Mussolini. . . . Its enemies are Communism and Free Masonry. (Here I remind you that Free Masonry in France has no resemblance to the very fine organization of the same name in other parts of the world. American and English Free Masons are forbidden to recognize this bastard branch of France to whose activities many dark pages in French history can be traced.) . . . Fascism is only the label given this fine organization by its enemies - a false statement...
...Guernut shouted across the Chamber at Premier Pierre Laval: "The plotting of the Fascist Leagues is undeniable! Their object is to substitute for the Republic a Fascist regime. They themselves avow it and Colonel François de La Rocque announces as imminent a seizure of power by his Croix de Feu. Not one of the men who have been brought before the highest court of the land, during the last 50 years, for treason ever menaced the country so seriously as do the chiefs of the leagues!" If the Government is not aware of these facts," concluded Old Guernut...
...some time before and it was unnecessary to remind people of it. From the March of Time newsreel about Ethiopia, the Board cut all evidences of British armed force, including naval guns, marching men and officers toasting the King. From the newsreel about France's Fascist organization, the Croix de Feu, it cut all indications that the late Alexandre Stavisky was protected by grafting high officials and that the Paris riots of February 1934, resulted in some killings...