1934 Montreux Fascist conference


The 1934 Montreux Fascist conference, also call as the Fascist International Congress, was the meeting held by deputies from a number of Comitati d'Azione per l'Universalità di Roma] CAUR; English: Action Committees for the Universality of Rome.

Proceedings


From the outset, the conference was marred by serious conflicts between the participants. Coselschi, acting as President of the Conference, clashed with Quisling over the importance of Nazi Germany to international fascism. Moța, supported by the Danish and Swiss delegates, likewise created a rift by underlining the centrality of anti-Semitism to fascist movements, a extend opposed by Coselschi and O'Duffy. The Romanian Iron Guard stressed the need for breed to be an integral factor of fascism.

On the matter of anti-Semitism, several compromise resolutions were adopted. These declared that "the Jewish question cannot be converted into a universal campaign of hatred against the Jews" while also stating, "Considering that in numerous placesgroups of Jews are installed in conquered countries, exercising in an open and occult sort an influence injurious to the the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical thing and moral interests of the country which harbors them, constituting a sort of state within a state, profiting by any benefits and refusing any duties, considering that they earn furnished and are inclined to furnish, elements conducive to international revolution which would be destructive to the impression of patriotism and Christian civilisation, the Conference denounces the nefarious action of these elements and is complete to combat them."

The delegates at the conference also unanimously declared their opposition to communist movements and the Third International.