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...said that between 1926 and 1932, during which years he was Premier of France and held various Cabinet portfolios, he on at least 20 occasions gave Government money in banknote form to Colonel Count Francois de La Rocque, leader of the Fascist War veterans' organization, Croix de Feu, which has now been reorganized as the Social Party (TIME, March...
...district, almost solidly Communist but with a minority of hard-headed little cafe and shop keepers who are tough - or with their middle-class ideas they would not live in Clichy. Some of these shopkeepers belong to the new French Social Party, successor to the bourgeois Croix de Feu league of gentle manly and insipid Colonel Count Casimir de La Rocque (TIME, April 20). Last week the Social Party hired the Olympia cinema house in Clichy for a special showing of their film La Bataille. Communists at once protested. Paris police authorities ruled that entry to the Olympia would...
Later some 40,000 spectators wildly cheered 15,000 marching members of the Croix de Feu, giving the Fascist salute derisively at police. Ensued a free fight in which cafe patrons hurled water syphons, tables & chairs at police who hurled them back. Significantly, when the Gardes Mobiles marched in to restore order, these grim troopers were cheered with cries of "France for the French!" while the police were booed as tainted with the Socialist, Communist and Jewish aura of the Popular Front...
...journalism in celluloid, it must be as free to handle controversial news as the Press, Watchdog Wilkinson has on various occasions removed from the British March of Time shots of German Nazis persecuting Jews, members of the French People's Front demonstrating against the Fascist Croix de Feu...
...opinion everything international is mischievous, Everything national is useful and fertile. The Croix de Feu is one of the soundest elements in the country. It wants to defend the family." When election returns were counted last week Communism was not only in the circle of admissible doctrines, but definitely in the Chamber of Deputies with 72 seats...