Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...communiqués were issued as the two leaders began their talks. But with the signing of the Sino-Russian pact (TIME, Aug. 27) a change came over the Communist propaganda line. The Generalissimo was no longer a "fascist" defeatist but "President Chiang Kai-shek." The Generalissimo's regime was no longer the "reactionary Kuomintang clique" but the "National Government." Said a Communist spokesman: "We recognize Chiang as a national leader of the anti-Japanese war and we are prepared to recognize him as the leader of postwar rehabilitation...
...place, Jimmy Byrnes put a man about whose opinions and actions there was little doubt: big, bluff Spruille Braden, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina since the U.S. recognized the Farrell Government last April. In Buenos Aires, Spruille Braden had resisted the threats and insults of fascist-minded Argentines who called him a "Yankee pig" and shouted "Death to Braden!" He had told the Government time & again that the U.S. would stand for no fascist finagling...
...Three pressure on Franco began when Russia insisted on a place at the Tangier conference, but refused to sit down with representatives of Fascist Spain. Spain was excluded. Next came the Russian-initiated Big Three agreement at Potsdam barring Franco's Government from the United Nations organization. After that...
...attitude toward the Argentine militarists. "Victory," said Braden, "has brought us new and surprising friends. The victorious United Nations are now being acclaimed in some high places by those who in the past . . . attached themselves and their destinies to the Axis. . . . The peoples of the world have learned that Fascist militarists . . . will stop at nothing. ... To defeat them we have paid a staggering price. . . . We shall not forget this lesson merely because petty tyrants are now assuming the disguise of spurious democracy. No longer can a self-respecting world . . . accept a government that rules through violence...
...city's Austrian Burgers had honored Native Son Mozart with a summer music festival, and since 1900 it had attracted music lovers. Then, in 1934, Arturo Toscanini moved to Salzburg, and thousands came by train and plane to see and hear him. After Anschluss and the departure of Fascist-hater Toscanini, Germany's Wilhelm Furtwangler took over and the festivals became Nazi celebrations...