Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Eoin (Owen) O'Duffy, 52, bellicose, hard-drinking, hunger-striking Irish revolutionary, who fought under the late great Michael Collins in "The Trouble," headed the Free State Army when Collins died, commanded the Irish Civic Guard until Eamon de Valera ousted him in 1933, promptly organized the Fascist Blue Shirts in retaliation; in Dublin. "Give 'Em the Lead" O'Duffy, son of a North Ireland farmer, had a voice that could make a policeman jump a block away, the smile of a man who knew he had to keep his eyes open. As president...
Empty Symbol. At the gate of the Royal Palace, fierce, shabby Partisans mounted guard. But the palace was an empty symbol. Young King Peter, exiled in London, might never live there again. Boys & girls of the Serbian Anti-Fascist Youth Congress chanted: "We don't want Peter, we want Tito." Said Tito: "Old Balkan differences will never again appear in the Balkans...
...feud with the U.S. State Department. President Castillo had been a great Yankee-hater. Relations grew worse when Castillo was overthrown. Some of the new Spiritual Renovators looked not merely anti-U.S., but pro-Axis. U.S. newspapers began to cry that they were setting up a full-fledged Fascist state in the Western Hemisphere...
...Fascist? But Foreign Minister Peluffo's proviso once again rubbed the sore spot in U.S.-Argentine relations-how Fascist is Argentina...
Moreover, the GOU Government had become less Fascist-flavored. Pro-Fascists were maneuvered from office by Perón. Now, the most important Cabinet members next to Perón were the Minister of the Interior, Admiral Alberto Tessaire, and Foreign Minister, General Orlando Peluffo. Neither has any perceptible Fascist taint...