Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Sir Oswald Mosley led some 300 Fascist followers through six miles of streets in a May Day parade...
...Reuther himself could not guess who had pulled the shotgun's trigger. Said he: "It could have been management, a Communist, a Fascist or a screwball. I can't put them in any order...
Save Franco. When Hitler needed Spain's military help, Franco pleaded unreadiness. Hitler reminded the little Caudillo that without Hitler and Mussolini there would have been no Fascist Spain. Franco placated the Führer by refueling Nazi submarines with U.S. oil, giving German spies a free hand, and turning over the Spanish press to Axis propagandists. (Hitler had kept an itemized bill for his aid to Franco during the Spanish Civil War; Franco made payments on it all through World War II with U.S. food and oil and Spanish strategic materials which, he told the Allies, Hitler would...
...women. Two of them entered the house of Eugenia Fotinopou-lou, who was six months pregnant. Her husband had been impressed into the work crews who were loading loot into rebel trucks. When the guerrilla women heard that Fotinopoulou had been "taken away," they decided that he was a "fascist" and they fired four shots into Eugenia's swollen belly. Fotinopoulou came back from his labors for the enemy to find his wife dying. "This happened to me," he said, "just as life was beginning to smile...
...decisive victory for the Christian Democrats have improved in the last few weeks has been due more to the enormous effort put forth by the recently organized Catholic Action than by the increase of American interference in the form of letters to relatives, suggested return of pre-Fascist colonies, and speeches by the American Ambassador. The success of this group, working in every parish through Cardinals and priests to get out the vote, may well be the deciding factor in the election, since the apathetic votes represent the potential supporters of the de Gasperi party. The Pope has firmly said...