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Questions about the activities of the John Birch Society brought strong denials from Rousselot that the group was "fascist." "they are a fine group of truly dedicated Americans." He said he joined because "I found their meetings extremely informative, educational, and helpful...
Deciding against two wives accused of adultery who had sought to have Article 559 of the Penal Code declared unconstitutional, the judges ruled that the law, enacted during Mussolini's Fascist regime, was valid, even though it stood in clear contradiction to the 1947 constitution. Article 3 of the constitution states that "all citizens have equal social rank and are equal before the law without distinction of sex." True enough, reasoned the venerable judges, but this did not mean that the framers of the law "were obligated to provide equal discipline for all." Husbands must be protected against...
...Thant became publicity director for the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League during its struggle to win freedom from the British, and served as the government's top press officer, winning high marks from newsmen for his honesty and knowledgeability. In 1953, when U Nu was Prime Minister, U Thant became his private secretary, speechwriter and alter...
...believes will never come off." Kennedy unemotionally traced the misconceptions and the soporifics that lulled England during the prewar years. There was too much reliance upon the moribund League of Nations and the attenuated Disarmament Conference; too little attention was paid to the avowed long-range aims of the fascist governments...
Franco managed to keep Spain out of World War II, but his sympathies lay with the Axis (he even sent a division of infantry to fight Russia). In 1946, the new United Nations, determined to bring down the last fascist dictator in Europe, cut him off from the world by imposing a boycott which lasted five years. Spaniards, always resentful of foreign meddling, immediately united behind the Caudillo. From his palace at El Pardo near Madrid, Franco thumbed his nose at the West, saying that the West would eventually come around...