Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most embarrassing of all Generalissimo Francisco Franco's followers is the famed "Radio General," hoarse-voiced, bibulous General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, commander of the Rightist southern armies. Once such an ardent Republican that he was exiled by Alfonso XIII, Queipo de Llano quickly turned to fascism, was an active leader in the present civil war when Francisco Franco was still in Morocco. A violent self-advertiser, Queipo de Llano's frequent personal broadcasts have become one of the high spots of the war. When his language grows too indiscreet his own electricians sometimes...
...already made great progress." British Author Philip Noel Baker (The Private Manufacture of Armaments) spoke fervently for international government. An enthusiastic delegate offered a resolution to make the League of Nations an instrument of ''international political hygiene to prevent the growth of the diseases of Communism and Fascism." From Barcelona, where Dottoressa Montessori had been conducting a training school for teachers until hostilities caused her to leave last summer, came an excited cable from the Catalonian Government promising that 150 Montessori schools would soon be open for 60,000 young Catalans...
...Noble, just turning 21, stood before his rector and recited a lengthy oath, core of which was: "I believe that every Communist and Fascist in America is a traitor to the United States of America. This is my pledge as an American and a Christian: to fight Communism and Fascism wherever I find them; to enlist others in the fight. . . ." Explained David Colony, who said he had thought up the oath after attending a Nazi meeting: "I wish to see every boy passing into manhood take this serious oath. . . . He may come here to my church and he will...
...After Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had said in the House of Commons last week: "If we will not join an international bloc against Communism-and we won't -neither will we join an international bloc against Fascism," Dictator Mussolini newsorgans opined warily: "A new era of good feeling between Italy and Britain finally may be opening...
...Conference which many delegates were determined to develop into a frontal attack on Fascism, there might have been likelier promoters than Churchman Brown, the scion of the banking Brown Brothers who married Anne Spencer Morrow and Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who lives well on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and planned after the Conference to golf with other members of the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. Last week Dr. Brown was far less in evidence than such U. S. churchmen as Union's passionate Reinhold Niebuhr or deliberate Henry Sloane Coffin, Princeton Theological Seminary's John Alexander Mackay, Presiding...