Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marshaling these votes, the British leadership last week was out to remove foreign troops from Spain. Word had come from Moscow that Russia would recall her aviators and military instructors from the Spanish front if Fascist states did likewise. In Paris, Deputy Leon Archimbaud rose in the Chamber to announce that 1,000 French volunteers had been repatriated. British and French agents in Germany reported that Adolf Hitler had lost all stomach for the Spanish adventure (always unpopular with the German General Staff) and would be glad to pull out of it completely. The strategy of Britain (and France) last...
Opening move in this campaign was to permit, at long last, Spanish Delegate Julio Alvarez del Vayo to produce his White Book listing documentary evidence of Fascist intervention in Spain. These documents-mostly photostats of papers taken from captured soldiers-were almost completely limited to evidence of Italian intervention. The press summary handed newshawks listed 100 separate documents. The book contained 101, the hastily suppressed 101st carrying an overlooked reference to German participation. All this deeply planned strategy was knocked higher than a kite at week's end by the bombs that fell on the Nazi battleship Deutschland...
...pile of Franz Josef's royal palace above the city. The kingless Kingdom of Hungary was entertaining the first royalty to visit it officially since the owl-eyed King of Siam went to Budapest shortly after the War. Little old Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, his strapping Queen and Fascist Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano were the principals...
Mussolini told Austria's Chancellor Schuschnigg that he could no longer defend Austrian independence as he had before, but the gobbling of Austria by Germany might be postponed many months if Austria would follow Yugoslavia in joining a Fascist bloc of Danubian States which would isolate Czechoslovakia from her French and Russian allies...
Bound home from his fishing trip, President Roosevelt declined to comment directly on the Dodd letter, but newshawks aboard the Presidential special learned from his "associates" that he was inclined to share his Ambassador's fears. Though unconcerned about whether any particular billionaire was planning a fascist putsch, the President was represented as believing that a dictatorship might indeed result unless his foes were held in check...