Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those countries where remnants of parliamentary government and Demo- cratic freedom remain the proletariat still has a chance, though a pitiful and trifling one, to organize and openly defend its class interests, despite the heavy oppression of the Capitalist system...
...Where there is a Fascist dictatorship the proletariat is deprived even of the most insignificant rights and opportunity legally to defend its class interests. Therefore, we Communists will fight wholeheartedly to retain every ounce of Democratic freedom...
...ready to defend the remnants of parliamentarianism and Democracy together with the real adherents of bourgeois Democracy against Fascism in order to fight for proletarian Democracy...
...which Benito Mussolini jacked his country above the status of a second-class power was to put the lira, previously a wobbly joke currency, squarely on gold (TIME, Jan. 2, 1928). Soon at Pesaro the Lira Monument was reared, cut deep with II Duce's promise to defend the gold lira to the last drop of Italian blood. Since then nothing has occurred to convince the Dictator that any other statesman who inflates, debases or trifles with currency values is not dead wrong. Last week with U. S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Baldwin and Japanese Premier Okada...
...many a headline writer splashed ITALY GOES OFF GOLD TO PAY FOR WAR! Actually Italy has not been on a true gold standard for some years, and last week's decree did not unhook the lira from its pegged relation to gold which II Duce has sworn to defend, and Italian Government bonds, after weakening, closed a week's end at their previous levels. In the money marts of London, Manhattan and Paris wiseacres opined that a year or more may pass before the lira lapses into danger of being forced...