Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executive committee of Premier Edouard Daladier's Radical Socialist Party-without whose support he cannot remain in power-passed with only one dissenting vote a resolution asking a curb on Italian aid for Generalissimo Franco. The French General Staff has long viewed with misgivings the establishment of a Fascist power on France's southern frontier. There were signs that to "neutralize' Italian aid to Franco the French might unseal the Spanish frontier and allow military equipment to pour into Catalonia, as it poured in during the last big Franco offensive last March. Such an action would...
...such as a full chronology of events and official texts. Final result of Mr. Armstrong's post-Munich ponderings, published this week, is a full-fledged book entitled When There Is No Peace,* whose 236 pages constitute the first really professional, scholarly analysis of a year filled with Fascist triumphs and democratic defeats...
...Premier after the warmth of his African receptions that he chose to ignore the latest manifestation of Italian ill will. Special Correspondent Jérôme Tharaud of the Paris-Soir arrived at Genoa by plane en route to Djibouti. Even though he had an Italian visa, the Fascist police interrupted his voyage, escorted him back to the French frontier. Reason: Italy claimed M. Tharaud had written articles uncomplimentary to Italian soldiers in Spain...
Then, for the first time since Japan began its conquest of China, the army got its own man the premiership. The Emperor gave the job to austere, fanatically patriotic, 73-year-old Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma. Recognized civilian leader of Japan's military-fascist front, since the army's uprising in February 1936 Baron Hiranuma has been president of Emperor Hirohito's Privy Council...
While in the Department of Justice the Baron, then plain Mr. Hiranuma, became notorious for harsh, even sadistic, persecution of persons harboring "dangerous thoughts," an official euphemism for any ideas critical of the existing order. In 1914 he founded the Kokuhonsha (National Foundation Society), the nucleus of the military-fascist front. In 1936 the society was disbanded because Baron Hiranuma had become president of the Privy Council, and as an adviser to the throne was considered above politics...