Word: fascistizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...died from wolfing barley, then drinking water. The Government moved again, talked loudly of a great program of well-drilling and reservoir-building south of the Atlas. The Tuaregs have little interest in reservoirs for the future, they want food now, and France cannot let them cross the mountains. Fascist propaganda, though not yet as serious in Morocco as in Tunisia, is a deep worry to French Moroc can officials. Shrewd diplomacy on the part of General Charles Nogues, present Resident General of Morocco, has reduced a nationalist Arab league known as the Jeunes Marocains to comparative impotence. But should...
...this situation colonial officers on the spot gave heartiest thanks for Spain's General Franco. Tempting offers of full canteens and salaries to fight for Fascist Spain have won hundreds of hungry tribesmen over the frontier, and French frontier officials have almost broken their necks turning their heads the other...
Largely because the French people have never been able to take seriously a politician whose middle name they believe to be Casimir, the disorganized body of Right-minded Frenchmen with fascist leanings have found Colonel François "Casimir" de la Rocque a weak reed to lean on. In recent months a much more potent fascist has appeared in the person of hulking, bull-voiced Jacques Doriot. A former mechanic and metalworker, son of a blacksmith, his political career has been irregular as his private life is blameless...
...Fascist Doriot is a converted Communist, kicked out of the Party for refusing to take orders from Russia. Turned fascist, he attracted little attention from French Leftists during his first few months of speechmaking. They began to worry when they learned that he, for 16 years mayor of the normally Red suburb of St. Denis and a potent member of the Paris Municipal Council, was actually converting a number of St. Denis voters to fascism. A key point in the program of Doriot, who favors an alliance with Germany & Italy, is the union of pro-German and anti-Russian elements...
...Leftist Government of Premier Blum, one year old this week, struck last week at rising Fascist Doriot. By edict of the Ministry of the Interior, he was removed from office as mayor of St. Denis, charged with corruption in the purchase of coal and the awarding of electrical contracts...