Word: rexism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...flesh and because they appreciate that Premier van Zeeland stands for traditional, quiet Belgian politics and for no fancy isms, the three parties in the Belgian Cabinet coalition - Catholic, Liberal, Socialist - agreed to offer no rival candidates. The stage was thus set for a fight between parliamentary government and Rexism, a fight in which Degrelle will get no support that the wily Premier can possibly sidetrack...
...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...
Boldly Belgium's would-be Dictator issued a statement last week for the first time clarifying his ideals and objectives. "Rexism is a sacred mission arising out of Belgium's traditional Catholicism!" he proclaimed. "I am more a brother of the Spanish Catholic than of the Belgian Communist. I sent Rexist troops to aid General Franco and I treasure his words thanking me for my part in saving Spain...