Word: fascistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Darnand was a sergeant in World War I, a lieutenant in World War II, was highly decorated in both. He formed his own Fascist outfit, the Chevaliers du Glaive, in the '30s became prominent among the Cagoulards ("Hooded Men") a secret terrorist group which organized bombings and assassinations, stored arms depots all over France. Darnand was prosecuted for complicity in the murder of a business associate, for being too close to the Duce's intelligence service, for bad checks issued in his name by his mistress...
...support our friends and bring discomfort to our enemies." The Vice Admiral's words amounted to a big-stick warning that: 1) the U.S. regards the present Argentine Government as a hostile regime; and 2) the U.S. will defend its democratic friends, such as Uruguay, from any military, Fascist-like revolt instigated by Argentina...
...Neighbors. Little, liberal, democratic Uruguay (pop. 2,000,000) has nervously watched the development of aggressive, Fascist-like nationalism in neighboring Argentina. The group of Army jingoes called "The Colonels," led by Colonel Juan Domingo Peron and nominally headed by President-General Pedro Ramirez, has defied the U.S., the United Nations, its Latin neighbors. Almost certainly "The Colonels" instigated the revolt of Gualberto Villarroel in Bolivia (TIME, Jan. 3., et seq.}. Probably the Argentine junta has plotted similar moves in other countries, will plot again...
From Peru came more evidence of the current of Fascist-tinged nationalism which is running through Latin America. The Peruvian Government announced the discovery of a revolutionary plot by pro-Nazi elements, "including Germans, and Japanese." They had planned to stage anti-Semitic riots on New Year's Eve, seize power during the confusion. Tipped off by "outside sources" (the State Department was suggested), the Government of President Manuel Prado arrested the plotters, planned to deport some of them...
...Argentina, the dominant "Colonels' Clique" clung to its typical Fascist state, apparently unworried by threats of a British-U.S. embargo against Argentine trade. Well-informed authorities in London and Latin America doubted that Britain would actually go very far on this road, suggested that her investments in Argentina (?387,000,000) were too great, her trade too important to jeopardize. There were other weapons than embargo. A U.S. threat to further arm Brazil and Chile might undermine the "Colonels' Clique." Large credits to set up competing industries in the same countries might frighten Argentine industrialists. Even...