Word: rexism
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...Leon Degrelle left for France, to preach civilization and Rexism. At the border, French gendarmes hustled him off the train...
...Belgium, Catholic resistance (TIME, Feb. 17) is still strong, as shown by Rexist Leader Leon Degrelle's angry attack last week: "The main point, however, remains Hitler, the Axis and Rexism, which the priests bitterly tear by their teeth every Sunday morning in sermons full of hatred. . . . This abuse of religious freedom for provocation purposes in an atmosphere of rebellion, which is created by numerous Belgian priests, is absolutely intolerable...
Taking a chance that the Catholic Church would suffer in silence Rexist claims that it was not against Rexism, Orator Degrelle indulged in an orgy of this double negative, then took one chance too many by referring to "the silence of Malines." This brought His Eminence Joseph Ernest Cardinal van Roey, Primate of Belgium and successor to the War's famed Cardinal Mercier, wrathfully out of his Archbishop's Palace at Malines. He not only told the Catholic voters of Belgium in a formal statement that Rexism is "a danger to the country and the Church...
Thus the short-term, immediate result of last week's polling was never in doubt but the Belgians, essentially a long-term folk, palpitated with eagerness to see if Rexism could win enough votes to make it a coming party. At the election of last May the Rexists, offering candidates for the first time, won 11.4% of the popular vote and 21 of the 202 seats in the Belgian Chamber. In Brussels, the district contested last week, they won last May 55,500 ballots out of a total of 340,000. This spring it has been Degrelle...
...personal onslaughts and was ostracized. Followed a noisy Rexist campaign against the "banksters" - financial powers behind the Government. Already Degrelle was holding hundreds of meetings, had thousands of followers, saluting each other with out stretched arms, wearing red armbands with the cross and crown of Christus Rex in black. Rexism is "against all political parties," mildly antiSemitic. It acknowledges the cultural differences between the "Walloons" (French-speaking Belgians) and the "Flamigantes" (Flemish Nationalists who want a separate autonomous government), contends that the "Flamigantes" should not be obliged to learn French...