Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrapped when Venizelists won the Greek general elections two months ago, and it appeared that old "Liberty" was still in the thick of Greek politics, by mail and telegraph. What had happened was that, after King George's recall, both the King and Venizelos had discovered that Fascist-minded General George Kondylis was far more dangerous to them both than either of them was to the other. King George personally granted Venizelos amnesty and Venizelos wrote, "I say from my heart, 'Vive le Roi!'" Nevertheless he prudently stayed on in Paris...
Spain has an extreme political fringe to the Right, its only true Fascist Party, called Falange Española (Spanish Phalanx) which did not win a single Cortes seat in the election. Its chief is the handsome, 34-year-old lawyer-son of Spain's famed Dictator under the monarchy, the late General Primo de Rivera. Eldest of a hot-headed trio of born troublemakers, José Antonio Primo de Rivera was closeted with Adolf Hitler shortly before Germany's 1934 Blood Purge, returned to Spain in time to lead his blue-shirted pistoleros against Spain...
...entire Italian wheat-marketing industry was nationalized by Il Duce as another war emergency measure last week. '"Middlemen have been abolished!" local Fascist Party secretaries told the peasants. "You will now bring your wheat to Government warehouses, and Italian millers will no longer receive wheat from any other source than these Government warehouses...
After this confusing announcement Dictator Mussolini stated with precision that his Fascist Grand Council is proceeding to nationalize all Italy's large industries so as to put the kingdom on a 100% prepared-for-European-war basis...
...Anger is his third book of poems. His second (American Song) last year provoked hyperbole from both directions. Some literary lobbyists thought they heard a great big new voice, thought they saw "somebody walking in America in proud shoes." Left-wing critics thought they spied a little black Fascist in his wordy woodpile. As if to confound their politics, in Break the Heart's Anger Poet Engle has taken care to announce his revolutionary sympathies. And from various European vantage-points (almost every poem has a different postmark) he hurls rude remarks toward his native land. He calls...