Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side, General Franco formed his own 20-man Junta, modeled on Italy's Fascist Grand Council, to help him rule Spain's Rightist territories and eventually "to supplant the Madrid-Valencia Government." All political parties were outlawed by General Franco except the one under his command, which received this impressive title: The Spanish Phalanx of Traditionalists and Offensive National Syndicalist Juntas...
...fascism, though Ortega's first remarks sound coolly friendly, he ends by analyzing it in terms no fascist will like: "If no one believes firmly in any political form, if there is no single institution which warms all hearts, it is natural that the victory should go to one which despises all existing forms and institutions and occupies itself with other things. . . . [But] the moment there arises a new principle of political law which can win the unstinted enthusiasm of a social group, fascism will vanish into thin...
...British Government officially deplores the recent slaughter of Spanish civilians in Guernica, an incident in the Fascist march on Bilbao. Unofficially, the Government realizes that if the city falls, a crisis with Germany will be precipitated. The reason is Spanish iron. Neither England or Germany own much iron internally, but in recent years England has made up its deficit from Spain, which is just what Germany would like to do. Control of these mines, all of which send ore to the sea via Bilbao, seems to be the greatest objective of German troops in Spain...
...Schacht had a fine offer in his briefcase, but Premier van Zeeland, pleasantly aglow after his thumping electoral victory last fortnight over Belgium's No. 1 Fascist, Léon Degrelle (TIME, April 19), was in no mood to give anything away to the Fascists from across the Rhine. Germany is starving for raw materials; the Belgian Congo is one of the richest properties in Africa. Dr. Schacht's scheme was that Germany should buy $84,250,000 worth of Congo copper, tin and oil, pay for it within a specified time with thermometers, automobiles, safety razors, cameras...
...Growing up under the careful eye of her grandmother, the heiress-presumptive promises to become a woman well equipped to be a second Queen Elizabeth. Such material for the throne, coupled with the fact that Premier Baldwin's government seems to have sharpened its democratic mace against Bolshevik and Fascist competition, ought more than ever to make the public conscious of the monarchy's power...