Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stirred by the bombing of the Basques at Guernica. Idaho's eloquent old William Edgar Borah rose in the Senate one day last fortnight to denounce fascism, warn of increasing fascist activity in the U. S. His alarm, it soon appeared, was shared by Ambassador to Germany William Edward Dodd. In an extraordinary letter sent to Senators Bulkley, Glass and others last March, and given to the press by Senator Glass last week, the Ambassador passed along rumors that several Senators and a man "who owns nearly a billion dollars" were favorably disposed toward a U. S. dictatorship (TIME...
...letter was ill-timed, illadvised, unsolicited and out of keeping with his function as Ambassador." barked Indiana's Van Nuys, proposing that the Ambassador be called home to tell who his fascist billionaire...
...green caterpillar on a giraffe's neck . . . . A black cat looking pensively at a magnificent peacock just dead . . . . The Coliseum by full moonlight, three white cats in the arena playing . . . . 3 donkeys, 2 bottles, 5 Fascist soldiers outside a hotel in Naples serenading five American girls peeping from behind lace curtains . . . . A peasant woman in a field holding a child on her shoulders so that he could see over the wheat to the setting sun . . . . In the Cathedral at Agrigenti: a letter written by the devill
Italian news correspondents in Britain hustled back to London from their week ends last week, hastily packed, started for home. On orders from Il Duce himself, all Italian correspondents were recalled from Britain, all British newspapers, with the exception of the pro-Fascist Daily Mail, Evening News and Sunday Observer, were barred from Italy, and a semi-official boycott of the entire British Coronation was clamped on the Italian press. Immediately after the order, not a word of British news appeared in Italian papers. Even Italian newsreels were snipped of all British scenes. Elaborate pictorial supplements were ripped...
Chief upshot of the long-drawn war for the steamy Gran Chaco between Bolivia and Paraguay was that in both Republics the constitutional governments were overthrown, replaced by tight little military- fascist juntas. Last week in La Paz the Bolivian junta headed by excitable Colonel Jose David Toro capitalized on the scare that its overthrow was being plotted by Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). To President Toro, as that shrewd politico had foreseen, came prompt reassurances from the Government-organized syndicates of workers, miners and railway workers pledging all their strength to fend off any such attempt...