Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equivalent) so that they could present Rightist Spain as a formally constituted Government in asking for foreign recognition. El Caudillo has always refused to do this because of the incessant political bickering among his assorted followers, but strengthened by the fall of Gijón, last week a Fascist Grand Council for Rightist Spain was announced. The definite Cabinet duties of each member of the Grand Council had yet to be fixed. Among the five of its dozen members to be named last week was the 27-year-old daughter of Spain's late Dictator Primo de Rivera, Pilar...
...purpose of creating a war psychosis. It is scandalous that a former head of the British Government like Lloyd George, who in view of his age should advise seriousness and prudence, in a recent speech tossed to his audience hare-brained figures. . . ." Urgent notes went to Rome inviting the Fascist Government to discuss "immediate" withdrawal of foreign volunteers at a three-power conference. Behind this were veiled Franco-British threats of force, varying from opening the Catalan frontier for munitions and volunteers from France, to matching Italian volunteers with similar detachments of the French regular army...
Although now convinced that the Communism or "Democracy" of Stalin "every month brings the Soviet state closer in essence to the fascist states of Italy and Germany," Mr. Lyons of the sweated East Side remains an apostle of radicalism. "The Leninist-Trotskyist-Stalinist methods of revolution . . . when history's record is clearer," will serve, he thinks, "chiefly as an object lesson how not to make revolutions...
...theatre: "We [the intellectuals] are always on the right side of discussions, but never on any side of the barricades"; "There's only one thing that's definitely known about God; He's on the side of the winner"; "If you get tired of the Fascist salute, the Bronx cheer is always waiting for you"; "Old love is garrulous . . . like a demented Cook's guide, swooning in front of all the landmarks and monuments"; "I'm a pathetic figure, an old best seller...
...British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley climbed onto the top of a sound truck to address a Liverpool open-air mass meeting of 8,000 people. The crowd shouted, hissed. He gestured commandingly for silence, promptly received a volley of brickbats. Gashed on the left temple and back of the head, he fell, was carted off to a hospital with brain concussion. In the riot which he left, 20 people were injured, 15 were arrested...