Word: fascistes
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...underground. Some who first fled to asylum in embassies later slipped out to join other comrades in stirring up the peasants and the numerous unemployed. Immediately after the recent army rising, Communist leaflets quickly appeared on the streets proclaiming that "the people" had turned against the regime as "a fascist dictatorship imposed...
...Benito Mussolini was called to office as Head of the Government of Italy. "Excuse my appearance," the new boss told King Victor Emmanuel, "but I come from the battlefield." Mussolini referred to his Fascist Party black shirt, not the striped pants ("too long and tight") or the frock coat ("sleeves . . . too short") which he had borrowed from his pals. As for his "battlefield," this, too. was the property of friends: it was they who had made the historic "March on Rome" the preceding day, while Leader Mussolini stayed snug in the office of his Socialist newspaper, Il Popolo...
Next day Moscow put out a blast against Thailand's "venal, corrupt, half-Fascist" government. From Washington came gloomy predictions of the next Red move: to campaign for an "Autonomous Thai Federation," which is already organized among the Thais who live inside South China. This grouping is designed to embrace 1,100,000 Laotians and 3,700,000 Cambodians (many of Thai stock), in addition to the 19 million Thais of Thailand. As such, it would make a handsome Red jewel to set beside a Viet Nam run by Ho Chi Minh...
Austria's Prince Ernst RÜudiger von Starhemberg, 55, whose fascist bullyboys and Heimwehr provided a home-front imitation of Naziism until the real thing seized Austria in 1938, got more strange forgiveness for his past troublemaking: Austria's highest court handed back to him his 82 castles, estates and mansions, all of which were originally confiscated by the Nazis when they took over and remained in public custody...
...clear," Molotov fumed, "that the 16 had a clear-cut goal-to support and prolong the anti-nationalist, rotten, semi-fascist Syngman Rhee regime." If Communist lamentations are a sign of success, then the Korean breakoff was a success for the West. In the far-off town of Chinhae, South Korea, where he was attending an anti-Communist conference ("Asia for the free Asians"), old Syngman Rhee tilted his intricately sculptured face away from the sun, and smiled at the news from Geneva. "I do not wish," he said to newsmen, "to appear as saying I told...