FIERY CROSS
FRENCH MOVEMENT MEMBERSHIP GROWS TO 300,000 ALL CLASSES INCLUDED (United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7155 p.m.) Paris, June 12. An assembly of 15,000 adherents to the Croix de Feu (Fiery Cross movement) in Algiers,-when an air pageant was staged with the organization’s own aeroplanes, directs’ attention to the growth of this body, which wa.4 founded in 1927 with a membership of 5000. It now has a membership of 300,009. Its movements are always mysterious. A few weeks ago the Fiery Cross assembled 15,000 members at Marseilles and 5000 at Lille without the police knowing their plans. Opponents describe the members as Fascists or compare them with the Steel Helmets in Germany. They allege that their real object is the establishment of a dictatorship in France, but the leader, Colonel de la Roque, says the movement is essentially a French, revolt against the political, financial and economic tangles in recent years. Certainly it is democratic. It includes workers, industrialists, generals, artists and savants.
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Southland Times, Issue 25310, 13 June 1935, Page 7
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