Word: fascistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other irritations. Slick, sleek Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, big-time oilman, banker and part owner of the prewar pro-Fascist Paris Jour, had contrived to slip out of Algiers, turn up in Madrid. With him was Jean Rigaud, long his secretary, fixer and crony and a member of the short-lived Giraud government. The Gaullists suspected that Allied officials had supplied the passes and transportation, that a serious effort to save the skins of many Vichymen was being prepared...
Churchill replied: ". . . Italy attacked us. There is a clear line of distinction between nations who go to war with you and nations who leave you alone." Another member suggested that any Fascist government is "a preparation for attack" on democracy. Churchill answered that his remarks about abolishing Fascism and Naziism applied only to enemy powers and their satellites, not to any & all governments "whose internal form of ad ministration does not come up to our ideas...
...immediate purposes of France and of most Frenchmen in France, that fact makes nonsense of all the questions about De Gaulle. Is he a democrat? A Fascist? A megalomania with an appetite for personal power, whatever the label? A natural born, latter-day First Consul-a Fourth Napoleon? Tough old Rightist Republicans like Louis Marin, newly arrived in London after a close call with the Gestapo, throw back their heads and roar when apprehensive Britons ask if France is ready to accept dictatorship (meaning De Gaulle's) after four years of Nazi rule...
Serge Koussevitzky, famed Russian-born conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, received a touching "Bravo!" Wrote his 80-year-old sister Anyuta, from Russia: "Brother Serezha! Our family has had plenty of trouble. Our dear [brother] Nicholas perished in Leningrad in 1941 at the hands of the Fascist butchers. Only thou and I are left, my beloved brother. ... I have heard that thou, with thy work, also art helping our common cause, the destruction of our common enemy. . . . All my life I have been proud of thee and I shall be proud of thee until my last days...
Even more interesting than many of the pictures were the Independents' titles and price-tags. Samples: The Startling Discontinuity of Spatial Existence ($750), / Have Lived ($125), Death to the Fascist Snake ($150), Terror ($200), My Wife (not for sale). But there was nothing as startling this year as Alida Conover's picture of a cow on fire a dozen years...