Word: fascistes
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George Orwell wrote the above lines in tribute to an Italian colonel who dies fighting General Francisco Franco's fascist army in 1938. Orwell, who fought in Spain himself, always wrote respectfully, almost religiously, about the foreigners who aided the republicans during the Spanish Civil...
...first thing one notices about the 74-year-old Nelson is the gentle but active physical presence of a kindly man. Though genuine, this appearance seems somewhat incongruous after one looks a moment longer and notices the long scar, left by a fascist bullet, which runs down his neck. An activist in the American Communist Party for 30 years, Nelson is, above all else, a Marxist and a fighter. These two characteristics made it almost inevitable that Nelson would join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and go to Spain...
...relief. Dame May Whitty plays the title role of the innocuous old lady-spy whose disappearance aboard a train furnishes the central event of the narrative. Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood make for a formidable pair of amateur sleuths. And there's a good old-fashioned stab at the Fascist bugaboos thrown into the bargain. Engaging fare for a mid-week evening...
...fire-bombing of Guernica in April 1937, which razed the entire city, became a symbol of fascist aggression, Southworth said. He said the German air force bombed Guernica for eight hours, and their fighter planes machine-gunned fleeing civilians...
...increased terrorism, peasant unrest, and nationalist moves against foreign interests. Off-the-record, Lopez Portillo is reported to have stated that these problems could render him the last of Mexico's constitutional presidents. What would happen then is not a Communist takeover, which the American Congress fears, but a Fascist dictatorship. In his address to the Congress, Portillo stated that: "We do not want the present situation to make us lose our way...by forcing us...to extremes...