Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-four hours after he had signed the political and commercial pacts with Austria and Hungary (see p. 14). Premier Benito Mussolini stepped forward on the stage of Rome's Opera House, gave the Fascist salute to an audience of 4,000 of Italy's head men and launched into one of his most boastful speeches. Excerpts: "In this age of plans, I want to lay before you a plan, not for five years or ten years, but for 60 years, carrying on to the 21st Century, at which time Italy will have the primacy of the world...
...Vienna London last week became the world's No. 1 Socialist city when it stepped into the shoes out of which Socialist Vienna was knocked last month by force of Fascist arms. The Labor Party swept up a comfortable majority of the seats in London's County Council, Conservative stronghold for the past 27 years, and took over the job of spending $600,000,000 in the next three years on education, firefighting, housing and poor relief for 4,500,000 people...
...Socialist pledges in behalf of the workers." Lined up against him were the three Laborites who finally made common cause with the Conservatives and survived Labor's great fall in 1931: MacDonald, Philip Snowden and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas. The two factions in the Cabinet split wide on Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley's plan to break unemployment by huge public works plans. Old George was for it; the Three against it. They split wider on unemployment insurance payments. Snowden, speaking of "treasury difficulties and impaired credit," favored increasing the premiums or reducing the benefits. Old George wanted neither...
...added, "The Government's authority to intervene in labor disputes will be fully respected before the state of alarm is lifted." Premier Lerroux spread his state of alarm fast last week. He jailed great batches of union leaders, shut up their newspapers & headquarters, along with those of Fascists and Communists. Since even the newsboys on the streets were going for one another's throats. Fascist against Communist, he forbade the newsboys to hawk their papers by name. Hereafter they may shout only "morning pa- per" or "evening paper." Finally he got the Cortes to allow...
...Government declared out of office any man elected to anything on the Socialist ticket. A single labor union on the Italian Fascist model was promised. Recruiting for Army, Heimwehr and police was pushed vigorously. In every city little squads of recruits in civilian clothes were to be seen drilling busily...