Word: fascistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter, hot-headed Randolph Churchill denounced the "pharisaical attitude" of "certain French elements in London" (i.e., Fighting French). He also deplored "the widespread tendency to assume that any Frenchman who had occupied an official position under the Vichy government must be a traitor or possessed of a Fascist mentality...
Workers in undernourished, underhoused, underclothed Spain began in January to prepare the Cortes for its greatest Fascist hour. To change the onetime chamber of the Congreso de los Diputados to a hall fit for grandees, the offending red upholstered seats were changed to blue. Marble tables bearing honor rolls of past liberal leaders were removed. Paintings and inscriptions distasteful to the Falange were torn from the walls. The President of the Cortes' dais was raised to befitting Fascist level. Special space was allotted to the junta of the Falange. Carefully, it was seen that no accommodation for public...
Inside, the chunky Caudillo spoke mostly in the flowery phrases of Fascist mumbo jumbo. But he did predict that the war would last another six or seven years. And, with British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare and U.S. Ambassador Carlton Hayes sitting there listening, the Caudillo suggested that all the belligerents might yet get together and fight Russia. Said Franco: "The presence of Russia on one of the sides gives the struggle in Europe the character of a war to death. Many are the surprises that a long war might yet present...
...Yves Chatel, Governor General of Algeria, off to sympathetic Spain. He placed the anti-Vichy René Chambe in charge of propaganda. Charles Brunei, anti-Vichy former mayor of Algiers, was brought into the Council of War Economy. Reactionary General Jean Bergeret, Giraud's deputy civil commander, and Fascist-minded Jean Rigaud, political secretary of the North African war council, resigned. Previously Giraud had said: "I think after I announce my plans they will kick themselves...
...Britain the Wallace speech was warmly praised. It closely paralleled the views of the London Times (see col. 1). Said the Manchester Guardian: "There is a hundred times more anti-Russian feeling in the United States now than there is in this country, and much more tolerance for fascist systems of government. That is, of course, why Mr. Wallace made the speech...