Word: ultras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...redheaded" Winston Churchill, ultra-reactionary Chancellor of the British Exchequer, alarmist par excellence, hurled defiance at the Soviet government last week in terms so abusive as to make a diplomatic protest from Russia all but inevitable...
Sued for Divorce. General Eric von Ludendorff, "the brains of old Paul von Hindenburg," now active in German: Fascist politics, by Frau Ludendorff, daughter of a wealthy dairyman; in Berlin. She was said to have annoyed the General by incessant smoking. Frau Dr. Martha yon Kemnitz, ultra-Fascist publicist, was mentioned last week as his potential fiancee...
Premier Aristide Briand carried on last week with the support of his unprecedented "majority of enemies." (TIME, June 7.) Though a member of the Republican Socialist party, M. Briand found himself supported by the Right (including even the ultra-reactionary Royalists) in his efforts to save the franc; while the Left majority which confirmed his Cabinet in office (TIME, March 29) deserted him, and its leaders charged that he was placing France at the mercy of bloodsucking international financiers...
What would have sounded trite, perhaps ultra-conservative, even hypocritical upon the lips of the average Americanization worker, rings true as spoken by a Swede to members of his own race in this country. It stands out likewise as unique. In moments of extreme nationalism, nations have maintained spies in foreign lands to link emigrants to their abandoned fatherland. Seldom do they even now encourage complete expatriation. Ties of sentiment and race forbid. The lands of Europe have long regarded emigration as imperialistic energy gone to waste, and begrudged to the land to which their sons departed the fruits...
Chuckles were likewise rampant in London clubrooms at an alleged revelation of how the Government kept ultra-Tory organizations, the so-called "British Fascists," from violently attacking the strikers. When the "Fascists" reported for strike duty they were told that more trucks were imperatively needed to transport food supplies, and set to repairing several hundred vehicles from which "strikers" were alleged to have fiendishly removed essential parts. Actually the Government experts had carefully disabled the trucks. The Fascists, peacefully occupied in making repairs, were kept out of mischief...