Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound that gave Europe the "Hitler jitters" was the tramp of marching Fascists in Barcelona. Despite the official assumption in France and Britain that the triumph of Generalissimo Francisco Franco constituted no danger for them, there were facts that could not be disguised. Italian troops are still in Spain. Italy occupies lock, stock and barrel the strategic Island of Majorca. German guns back of Algeciras dominate Gibraltar, are able at any time to threaten Britain's Mediterranean "lifeline." Both France and England would have much to fear from German submarine bases on Spain's northwest coast, four...
...Italy, Dictator Mussolini left no doubt in anybody's mind that Barcelona's fall was a Fascist triumph and a French defeat. Prominently published was a wire from Generalissimo Franco: "I am grateful for the brilliant effort of the Italian troops who will receive the laurel of triumph with their Spanish comrades in Barcelona. . . . As General and a Spaniard, I am proud to number among my troops the magnificent [Italian] blackshirts...
Some Deputies on the Right welcomed the Fascist intervention in Spain, believed that Socialism on the south was a greater danger than Fascism. They were the peace-at-any-price party. On the Left, ardent Socialists and Communists wanted intervention at any price. In the Centre, holding the balance of power, were M. Daladier's Radical Socialists, who subscribed, temporarily at least, to a peace-at-almost-any-price program...
Japan's rubber-stamp Diet last week heard its new Premier, Fascist-minded Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, make some unorthodox admissions: 1) Chinese resistance was formidable; 2) in conquered territory Japanese troops controlled only cities and communications lines; 3) the Japanese Army will have to remain in China for a long time to come...
With Generalissimo Francisco Franco's troops edging nearer to Barcelona, France last week began to jitter over the probability of a Fascist victory on her southern frontier. In the Chamber of Deputies there were shrill demands-mainly from the Left-that France renounce the Spanish non-intervention policy and openly aid the Spanish Loyalists, just as Italy and Germany are openly helping the Rebels. The realistic French General Staff was reported to be contemplating occupying the Island of Minorca and Spanish Morocco if the Italian-backed Rebels win the war. There were scary rumors that the Rebel-held side...