Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black pistol was the black-shirted Fascist Grand Council, supreme organ of the Italian State. The resounding blank was a decision by the Grand Council in Rome last week. The decision: Only if the League of Nations is "radically reformed in the shortest possible time" as to its "constitution, working system and objectives" will Italy continue to remain a League member state...
After the recent scathing anti-League campaign in the Fascist Press (TIME, Nov. 27) many an Italian had expected the Grand Council to fire not a blank but the bullet of Italian resignation from the League. Il Duce's acts (as distinguished from his words) are, however, nearly always extremely cautious. He is working slowly (and he hopes surely) to root democracy out of the League, as he has rooted it out of Italy. Last Spring he tried to create an "authoritarian" bloc of Great Powers to put the League in its place by drawing Britain, France and Germany...
...judge from Fascist editorials, Cook Mussolini favors: 1) explicit divorcement of the League Covenant from the Treaty of Versailles (which Il Duce has long held should be revised to appease Germany and bestow on Italy certain territories which she was promised before she entered the War but failed to get at the Peace Conference); 2) expulsion of common nations from the League Council which would become a permanent committee of Great Powers, nebulously "responsible" to the Democratic League Assembly of all states; 3) drastic reduction in League expenditures and personnel on the theory that Geneva has become a hive...
...height of the outbreak Spanish Fascist José Antonio Primo de Rivera, son of the late Dictator, offered the Government 1,500 trained men to help suppress it. Though politely declined, Spanish wiseacres found that offer the most significant in the entire affray. Rumor would not down that the entire uprising was backed not by Radicals but by Royalists and Fascists in an effort to throw the acknowledged Rightist swing of Spanish voters behind an open dictatorship...
...trial," claimed Arthur Garfield Hays, prominent New York attorney at a monster mass meeting last night at Tremont Temple. The meeting, which was supported by the Harvard Liberal Club, the Harvard Chapter of the National Student League, and the Harvard Monarch, was arranged by the Boston Committee to Aid Fascist Victims...