Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, a much older military alliance with Czechoslovakia, and Czechoslovak Arms Manufacturing Co., owned 70% by the Czech Government, is 30% owned by the Skoda munitions trust which is according to latest reports in turn controlled by the French Comité des Forges. France, not wishing for another Fascist neighbor in Spain, might therefore have had equally good reason and better opportunity for interfering...
Last week's oration was the grand finale to Italy's summer war games in Sicily, was evidently intended to be a curtain raiser for new developments in Italian foreign policy. Throughout the Fascist Empire 43,000,000 Italians, obedient to orders of the Fascist Grand Council, stopped work, streamed into public squares to hear broadcast their master's voice. A squad of interpreters scribbled furiously to translate the speech into 18 languages for the benefit of the world at large...
...Correspondents Association; the other two, Franz Otto Wrede and Wolf Dietrich Langen, were working for a German news agency specializing in news of Germans living abroad. Of these Langen, supposed to be a close friend of No. 2 Nazi Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, was lately thrown out of Fascist Italy for promoting the Nazi cause too zealously there. According to the London Daily Herald, "the principal count against Langen was that he intimidated his fellow countrymen to use them as informers...
...Salvador's dictator, General Maximiliano H. Martinez, made haste to recognize the Fascist Government of General Franco in Spain as early as last November. He has cultivated trade with Germany. Gentlemen who cease to find the membership of their club congenial are apt to run behind on dues...
...Duce received the news in Sicily, where he had gone to review Italy's annual war games. On a triumphal tour of the island, he told cheering Sicilians that "the lush old days of the Roman Emperor Augustus" were the only fitting comparison with the Fascist regime. To the crowd jam-packing the public square of Syracuse he shouted that Italy was "ready for any struggle, prepared for any sacrifice & determined to snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina...