Word: fascistically
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...seemed to account for a silky statement by that fiery militarist whose rambunctiousness in Parliament provoked the crisis, General Count Juichi Terauchi. "There is talk in the streets," softly ad mitted the Count, "but the Army has no intention of carrying out a Dictatorship or a Fascist regime...
...Holy week in Seville, a group of particularly resolute Communists, wearing Red arm bands with the hammer & sickle, with the holsters of pistols peeping from their pockets, escorted through the streets the life-size figure of the Virgin Mary belonging to their district. "We don't trust those Fascist swine!" explained one of these Reds. "They pretend to be good Catholics but we are sure they don't harm the Holy Mother of our part of Seville. Somebody fired at her last time, and you can be sure it was one of those psalm-singing Fascists, the stinking...
...politicians were Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita and War Minister General Count Juichi Terauchi. On the first day of the session last week Foreign Minister Arita had to face critics of his frankly anti-Communist foreign policy. He stoutly denied he was interested in joining Japan to the Fascist group in Europe, said he wanted only to protect Manchukuo from Communist penetration. At these words, venerable Kunimatsu Hamada, a leader of the Seiyukai (minority party), rose to his feet, hurled with tacit approval of the majority party (the Minseito) furious accusations that the Army leaders aim at Fascism, that the Cabinet...
Hamada was "insulting," claimed the Army was not Fascist and was "cooperating with the people." Hamada then worked himself up to a typical Japanese nervous frenzy, screamed, "I will kill myself by hara-kiri if it can be proved that the Army and the Cabinet are not hand-in-glove!" Riotously the session adjourned. To the Imperial Palace rushed Premier Koki Hirota, advised bespectacled Emperor Hirohito to suspend Parliament for two days. But War Minister Terauchi's blood was at boiling point. He demanded that the Cabinet advise the Emperor to dissolve the Diet and order fresh elections...
Vast was the consternation this week in anti-Fascist camps when nervous little Major Attlee went over to Paris and delivered a lecture in which he proposed to "Share the Empire" or at least its superabundance of resources with less fortunate nations, this being an obvious attempt to butter Germany and perhaps Italy as well...