Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...status of legation, von Papen personally is raised to "Ambassador Extraordinary on Special Mission." With Germany taking de facto hold of Danzig (see p. 20) and Italy's conquest fast gaining de facto recognition, the new "Dictators' Diplomacy" was philosophized upon in Rome by No. 1 Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia. Wrote he of Adolf Hitler's order making Germany's Addis Ababa legation a consulate...
...Spanish Government, a regime of Socialists, Communists and rattlebrained Liberals had emptied the jails of cutthroats to defend itself and swell what could be called "forces of law and order." These forces included an indefinite part of the Army. Other Army units had gone over to generals of loosely Fascist forces in which were scrambled most of the Spanish Foreign Legion, parts of the Civil Guard, peasants whose priests had told them about Bolshevism, hired Pistoleros and boys and girls in their teens just shooting for the fun of it. It was these adolescents who killed the pregnant wife...
...British destroyer Verity had already arrived, hustled all foreigners away who wished to leave. None was more shaken than five Swiss tourists who had been lined up against a wall for execution by the Leftists until they could convince them that they were not Nazi agents helping the Fascist revolution. Word finally seeped down from Ambassador Bowers. He was marooned in his villa, barricades between him and San Sebastian. This week, with his wife and daughter, he scuttled up the coast by car through barricaded San Sebastian, across the border into France. There from St. Jean de Luz, he announced...
Chief distinction of Road to Exile, however, is Lussu's malicious portraits of his colleagues who first pledged undying enmity to Fascism, then became prudently neutral, eventually turned Fascist. At one meeting Signer Pietro Lissia told Lussu that unless the cause of liberty was defended to the last drop of blood, it would be a lasting disgrace ''for us and for our sons." Then he added: ''Not that I have any sons myself." He next appeared as the representative in Sardinia of Mussolini's Government...
...desire he had shown to lose his life during the War I was amazed," Lussu reflected, "that he should be so anxious to die in time of peace." Another democratic Deputy told Lussu that opposition was useless, since tyranny could never triumph over faith. Then when a group of Fascists passed he replied to the Fascist salute, complained bitterly that Italians were developing a slave psychology...