Word: firebrand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouble on a Flat Car. One bill granted amnesty to political offenders. Congress overrode President Aguirre's veto, and back to Chile went one firebrand whom Don Tinto would have loved to keep in exile: onetime President Ibañez, who made his return in state, sitting in his automobile on a flat car of a freight train. On his way back was another: General Ariosto Herrera, leader of the Movimiento Nadonalista, a Nazified party which made another unsuccessful Putsch...
...fore again came that Fascist firebrand, Roberto Farinacci, onetime Secretary General of the Fascist Party and now editor of Regime Fascista and the monthly La Vita d'ltalia. He accused Badoglio of "frequenting salons, hunting preserves and groups which received favors from him, saying he did not favor the [Greek] undertaking." As to rising prices, Editor Farinacci demanded: "With things increasing at this rate, are wages and salaries to remain unaltered? ... Is there anyone who imagines that profiteers have disappeared while the mass of the people are submitting to limitation in their standard of living...
...Condemned to death after being returned from France were Cipriano Rivas Cherif, brilliant dramatist, lawyer, diplomat; Julián Zugazagoitia, Basque firebrand, deputy, editor, historian, Minister of the Interior in the last Republican Government; Antonio Cruz Salido, onetime Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party; Carlos Montilla y Escudero, onetime Director of Spanish Railways, Loyalist Counselor in Havana; Miguel Salvador y Carreras, famed music critic, co-founder of the Madrid Philharmonic Society, Loyalist Chargé d'Affaires in Copenhagen. Over their bodies, the Spain of Franco aspires to a "prominent place over the ruins of Europe...
Meanwhile the Nazi organization is Mexico's most vociferous exponent of "neutrality as in the days of Carranza."* Chief local firebrand working for Führer Dietrich is the leader of the Vanguardia Nacional, militant Adolfo León Ossorio, who once led a mob assault on the American Embassy, and 200 police had to be called out to protect the premises. He repeats his master's assurances that the U. S. plans to throw Latin America into the European war and then to annex Mexico. Against this menace the only safeguard is close cooperation with Germany...
...valor at her helm. In Britain's blackest night since the Spanish Armada lay off her coast in 1588, Prime Minister Winston Churchill not only spoke words of courage but matched them with action. In less than seven days Great Britain's tireless old firebrand changed the character ot Allied warmaking from one of defend & wait to one of dare & strike, although the German onslaught made daring & striking seem more necessity than inspiration. The Prime Minister's week: I-Tuesday he drafted England's No. 2 hustler, Lord Beaverbrook, to head a new Ministry of Aircraft...