Word: fascistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English Genius." A small, bald, mustached man, General Fuller was retired from the British Army in 1933 for a sharp (and justified) cry for reforms in army mechanizations. Later, he was a candidate for Parliament on Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist ticket. He argued the Axis case, appeared with a glib Briton named William Joyce, who became better known as "Lord Haw Haw" (see cut) when England faced destruction. On the war's eve, Hitler invited General Fuller to his birthday celebration. (Said Radio Berlin: ". . . The English genius...
Tall Pierre Pucheu had made many an enemy in his career as steel cartelist, Fascist fellow traveler and Vichy Minister of Interior (1941-42). Now, he was on trial for his life, charged with defeatism, lèse-patrie, the murder of French resisters, the hounding of French workers at the behest of the Nazi Reich. His accusers said that the Council of Resistance in the homeland had long ago condemned Pierre Pucheu to death. They cited repressive Vichy measures bearing Pierre Pucheu's signature. Presumably their most telling evidence was presented in camera, lest unknown Frenchmen in France...
Argentine nationalists put on a show last week in front of the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires. Waving flags of Argentina, Spain, Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile, they shouted "Down with the Yankees!" Loud were the cheers for the new President, Edelmiro Farrell, stooge of Fascist-minded Colonel Juan Domingo Perón. Loud were the jeers for the U.S., which had failed to form a united hemisphere front against his recognition...
...Argentinian ideas ran . . . like this: Latin American Governments are fascist by nature. Mexico aside, it can be safely assumed that Latin America is far more afraid of a progressive democracy than of fascism. Any acceptance of progressive democracy might result in [the existing governments] being swept out of power...
Amateurs at Work. Field Security officers in Italy move into newly occupied towns along with, or only a few steps behind, the front-line combat troops. The security men make a quick check on the townspeople, find out who were the Fascist leaders and send them back to the lines at the tail end of batches of German prisoners. It doesn't take much detective work to uncover the town scoundrels. No overpowering display of authority is needed to get rid of them...