France/Italy/UK 20th Century Political Movements

PCA 193PCA 193

Official photo album commemorating the state visit of Galeazzo Ciano to Barcelona on July 11, 1939. M

Price: $300.00

Note: Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari (18 March 1903 – 11 January 1944) was Foreign Minister of Fascist Italy from 1936 until 1943 and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law. On 11 January 1944, Count Ciano was shot by firing squad at the behest of his father-in-law, Mussolini, under pressure from Nazi Germany.

PCA 193

PCA 187

Press release from the OAS date April 17, 1962, concerning the pardoning of FLN members following the death of Edmond Jouhaud. m

Price: $30.00

PCA 184

Set of 24 French confectionary cards on the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War. M

Price: $480.00

PCA 182

Document from the Italian National Association of Veterans, dated October 2, 1947. M

Price: $10.00

PCA 180

Italian fascist poster on the new system of organization in the fascist state. Printed in 1939. Size: 70 x 96. Professionally restored Rare. M

Price: $990.00

PCA 177

Statuto Dell ‘Associazione Italo-Americana di Sicilia. Published in 1949, it gives all 18 articles of the Association. M

Price: $90.00

PCA 124

FRENCH ANTI-COMMUNIST POSTER. It reads

FREE MAN REMEMBER!

17 JUIN 1953: EAST BERLIN . Soviet tanks opened fire on the Germans workers.

28 JUIN 1956: POZNAN . Polish Students and workers protest against persecution and terror of the communist regime.

November 4, 1956: HUNGARY . A people struggling for freedom. The Red Army kills Hungarians and crushes freedom.

HALT! the communist barbarism.

Size: 20 x 60. B AH

Price: $310.00

PTO 205Group of 8 photos of French politician Marcel Cachin (1869-1958). In 1891, Cachin joined Jules Guesde French Workers' Party (POF).PTO 205 In 1905, he joined the new French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and won election to the Chamber of Deputies representing the Seine in 1914. He rallied the national union during the First World War and was sent to Russia in a mission in 1917. However, in 1920 at the Tours Congress, he became one of the founders of the French Communist Party (SFIC) and joined the Third International. In 1923, he was jailed for denouncing the French occupation of the Ruhr and Morocco. As a strong supporter of the Popular Front, he refused to disavow the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and was removed from elected office in 1940.PTO 205 After the Liberation of France, he returned to the National Assembly until his death in 1958. He was the editor of the newspaper L'Humanite from 1918 to 1958. At the age of 88, he was the first foreigner to receive the Order of Lenin. M

Price: $180.00

PTO 205