Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ireland's blue-shirted Fascist, famed General Owen O'Duffy, announced last week that hundreds of his Irish Blue Shirts are volunteering to fight under Dictator Mussolini in Africa...
...Daladier and his so-called "Young Turk's" of Socialist and Communist leanings are out this year to stampede their party and the Government into strong-arm anti-Fascist measures. They threaten that unless French Fascist Leader Colonel François de La Rocque and his "Cross of Fire" movement are suppressed the Young Turks will organize fighting squads with bases in the "Red Zones" of Paris where Communists are reported already to have caches of arms...
Meanwhile the Party agreed to leave the suppression of the Fascists to their Deputies in Parliament which reconvenes next month. To this triumph of PATIENCE no small contribution was made by Fascist de La Rocque himself last week. In a letter to Pierre Laval which was made public at the crucial moment, the No. 1 French Fascist declared: "We have no other intention than to defend the Republic. We will obey the new laws and hold our demonstrations on private property...
...laws, hastily decreed by Premier Laval as his Contribution to PATIENCE a few days earlier, deprive Frenchmen of the right to carry firearms without a permit and aim, somewhat feebly, to end the recent series of "surprise Fascist mobilizations" by making prior notice and police consent necessary for public assemblies. Since the Fascists can easily find private property on which to meet and a hay-wagon from which Leader de La Rocque likes to speak (see cut, p. 26), Paris' Fascist Echo de Paris could clarion last week: "The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse- the decree...
Significance: Premier Laval was left free to continue his difficult "Honest Broker" activities between Fascist Italy and Parliamentary Britain...