Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedish newspaper Ny Dag said that extremist Nazis, already in despair, are planning methodically to go underground, and are establishing secret radio stations, arms dumps, sabotage material. From all of this, and much more, London observers drew two conclusions...
...turmoil did not necessarily mean revolution, though anything could happen. Argentines speculated that General Ramirez might give way as President to such extremist colleagues as Colonel Juan Peron, handsome, astute, ruthless Under Secretary of War and head of the Government's Labor Department; or to General Edelmiro Farrell, Irish-faced, hard-boiled Vice President...
...memory of a bloodily crushed strike eight months ago raised an uproar last week in the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies. The strike was that of Tin King Simon I. Patino's miners (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942); the uproar came when leaders of Bolivia's extremist parties accused the Government of responsibility for the bloodshed that followed Army intervention.* Under the barrage of criticism, President Enrique Penaranda's nine-man Cabinet resigned...
...crushing "extremist ideologies," the Government dealt less harshly with Nazis and Fascists. The pro-Nazi newspaper El Pampero was closed for five days and Bandera Argentina for ten. Bandera Argentina was reprimanded for insulting President Roosevelt in an editorial en titled "Insolent Ultimatum," dealing with the President's request that neutrals refuse refuge to fleeing Nazis and Fascists...
Treating the backgrounds for these violent plots, Grew continued, "Assassination is a well-recognized political procedure in Japan. When the extremists in the armed forces, especially the younger officers, believe that the Emperor's close advisors are too liberal in outlook and are failing to support the extremist and expansionist ambitions of the army and navy, they first try to get them out of office by political maneuvers and, if such maneuvers fail, then by armed assault...