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...French government officials declared late last year that they had nipped in the bud a plot to overthrow the republic concocted by (1 the Cross of Fire fascists, 2 Jacques Doriot's Popular Party, 3 Andre Tardieu, 4 a hooded band of monarchists, 5 Communists...
...they believe to be Casimir, the disorganized body of Right-minded Frenchmen with fascist leanings have found Colonel François "Casimir" de la Rocque a weak reed to lean on. In recent months a much more potent fascist has appeared in the person of hulking, bull-voiced Jacques Doriot. A former mechanic and metalworker, son of a blacksmith, his political career has been irregular as his private life is blameless...
...Fascist Doriot is a converted Communist, kicked out of the Party for refusing to take orders from Russia. Turned fascist, he attracted little attention from French Leftists during his first few months of speechmaking. They began to worry when they learned that he, for 16 years mayor of the normally Red suburb of St. Denis and a potent member of the Paris Municipal Council, was actually converting a number of St. Denis voters to fascism. A key point in the program of Doriot, who favors an alliance with Germany & Italy, is the union of pro-German and anti-Russian elements...
...Leftist Government of Premier Blum, one year old this week, struck last week at rising Fascist Doriot. By edict of the Ministry of the Interior, he was removed from office as mayor of St. Denis, charged with corruption in the purchase of coal and the awarding of electrical contracts...
...Roared Doriot: "The accusations against me are fantastic. ... It is fundamentally a political battle. I have never refused battle and I am going to fight...