Word: fascistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armies, navies and air forces maneuvered from Dairen to Labrador; Russia countered a U.S. charge of undue meddling in Manchuria with a charge that the U.S. had done the same in Bulgaria. Moscow again claimed that Russian forces had stayed in Manchuria at Chinese request, and alleged that "fascist" armies were being maintained in the U.S. and British zones of Germany. The Greek elections wavered toward postponement because of a leftist boycott; chancelleries puzzled what to do next with Rightist Dictators Franco and Perón. The Danes politely asked Russia to loosen her grip on Bornholm island; the Iranians...
...that the Nazi and Fascist pillars of Franco's regime have crumbled, what sustains...
...next days Europe's No. 1 surviving Fascist breathed defiance. At Madrid's War Museum, he proclaimed again "the failure of liberalism [Anglo-American]." He assailed again "the strongest of tyrannies [Russia]." He played on Spanish national pride and long-deferred social hope: "The outside [world] is not important. We are looking to the inside. . . . We are going to make . . . a better social justice, which is the basis of prosperity of the people. . . . Do you think that God would permit barbarism and lack of gallantry in the country of Don Quixote...
Wherever the West faced the Russians, its moral position was weakened by the embarrassing fact of Franco. Geographically and historically Fascist Spain was a responsibility of the Atlantic powers. If they could not get rid of the anachronism in Madrid, time might bring an opportunity for renewed Russian intervention, far to the west of the present Russian sphere...
...leading spokesman for Europe's socialist democrats, Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, who has said he detests Fascist Spain, was well aware of the desperately delicate situation. He and non-socialist democrats were struggling against Communism for the political soul of Europe, for the trust of men who would never again trust those who tolerated Franco. The U.S. was more remote from the scene, but as the leading power of the democratic coalition, the U.S. was not remote from the responsibility...