Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Socialism as an economic doctrine played little part in the reforms of efficient, practical Dan Hoan. In 1935 Socialists merged with Progressives, and Mayor Hoan ran for re-election as a member of the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation. But "Red" was the whoop still raised by Milwaukee Republicans and conservative Democrats, and this year, with Dan Hoan up for re-election the seventh time, "Red" was the whoop they raised again. Republicans and conservative Democrats lined up behind his rival, a former assistant city attorney, Carl Frederick Zeidler...
Active new Premier Paul Reynaud last week ordered Minister of Interior Henri Roy to get ready a decree making any further Communist or Nazi agitation in France punishable by long imprisonment or death. Police said current Red propaganda in France almost exactly duplicates Nazi propaganda urging the Allies to make immediate peace. Sensation of the Paris trial of 44 Communist ex-Deputies (TIME, April 8) was a declaration by the chief defendant, Communist Florimond Bonte. He said that he and his fellow prisoners "deserved well" of France for urging prompt peace with Germany on Adolf Hitler's terms...
Notwithstanding, the court imposed sentence of five years in jail, fines up to 5,000 francs ($101.50), and loss of civil rights for five years upon Red Bonte and 35 other Communist ex-Deputies. Eight were let off with suspended jail sentences of four years, but sent to concentration camps for Communists & Nazis near Paris (soon to be moved to North Africa). Nine Communist ex-Deputies tried in absentia (Paris believes several of these are hiding in the Soviet Embassy) received five-year jail sentences and fines of 5,000 francs, but further charges of "treason against the external safety...
...window of the Technical College at Fermo, Italy, and made off to Athens, where his father was collecting a band of Italian volunteers to fight in the Greek war against the Turks. It was then that he donned, for the first time, the Garibaldis' traditional red shirt ("because a man in a red shirt can neither hide nor retreat").* General Garibaldi resents being called a soldier of fortune, explains that the only time he ever fought against his convictions was in the Boer War, when he joined a mounted column under Kitchener. At 23 he was leading...
...head of a clan of tyrant-hating Red Shirts, peppery Peppino Garibaldi naturally did not think much of Benito Mussolini's Black Shirt". IN 1924 he called the Roman Legions of the Fascist militia "a gang in the pay of the Government" and the Legions' commander, General Varini, challenged him to a duel. Peppino refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved...