Word: fascistically
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Church and State. Whether the new France rising from the ruins of the old constituted a Fascist dictatorship or something else agitated the outside world more than it bothered Frenchmen. Pierre Laval, strolling in the park at Vichy told newsmen that the Pétain Government's policies will be "audacious but generous." They sounded neither generous nor audacious...
...citizens last week it was as if a well-loved wife had been unfaithful. The shock was no less because they had expected it. France had been cajoled, betrayed, raped, but what hurt was her final acquiescence. To some it seemed because of that final acquiescence. France, now brazenly fascist, must always have been unfaithful to democracy at heart...
That other necessary component of the Fascist State, the single party, promptly made its appearance. Deputy Marcel Déat ("I do not want to die for Danzig") announced that he had declined a Cabinet post, instead would form a French Uniform Party to support Leader-Designate Laval "which would place an authoritarian people's movement at the side of the authoritarian regime." Party planks: 1) France must do nothing to compete with German industry; 2) compulsory labor service for youth; 3) "France for the French...
...responsible for the subsequent degeneration of France. The Popular Front let rearmament lag while it pushed through its reforms. The Popular Front sent to Loyalist Spain munitions needed at home. The Popular Front pushed Italy into the Axis. The Popular Front undermined those institutions represented by the slogan of fascist France: Labor, The Family, The Fatherland. So thought, and still thinks, the Right...
...which merely means he is a polite straddler. He was once a melancholy Marxist, and amused himself by translating Oscar Wilde. Five years ago it was said that he was a Liberal because he sent his golf-playing son Fumitaka ("Butch") to Princeton. But two years ago he talked fascist: said he wanted to see Chiang Kai-shek's head roll in a basket...