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...fascism. With the confidence of self-made Goths who had cut themselves off from the politics of civilization, they developed an emotional commitment to a political system that called itself scientific. In Germany, as it happened, thousands of the best-educated men, contemptuous of politics in the early 1920s, committed themselves to fascism. The process was the same. What mattered was not which bad side they chose, but that the self-made Goths were so politically ignorant and so powerful inside the gates of civilization...
...Change. Turkey's willingness to try free enterprise marks a big change since the days of Dictator Kemal Ataturk, who tried to industrialize his nation through a cumbersome form of state socialism. The Turkish constitution, written in the 1920s, declared the nation to be "etatist" (i.e., state socialist). But as the Turks saw the disappointing returns of state socialism, the etatist ideology withered. In 1950 the voters elected Celal Bayar, an outspoken advocate of free enterprise, as President...
...over a decade her name has been little more than a memory borne on the elusive scent of a perfume now made by someone else. Yet, during the 1920s, when Paris was still the uncontested capital of haute couture, the unchallenged queen regnant of Paris fashion was petite, disdainful Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel. A bored, restless, country-bred orphan who fled to the city at 17 with no capital beyond her native Auvergnate shrewdness, Chanel had parlayed a flair for simple elegance into a million-dollar fashion business whose headquarters was the distinctive salon at 31 Rue Cambon, Paris...
...many happy years, Italy's No. 2 Communist, Luigi Longo, could sing with Poet Burns: "My love is like a red, red rose." His idyll began back in the 1920s when Communist Longo, then as now a better organizer than speechmaker, got trapped in dialectic during an argument at a trade-union meeting. With a naturally glib tongue sharpened in many a workers' demonstration, a young woman Communist and ex-sewing-machine girl named Teresa Noce rushed into the breach and with crushing Marxist logic silenced Longo's opposition. Gratitude and love mingled in Longo...
...reference to the Civil War, Beer explained, "was a wild misstatement." He stated that it was "acceptable only if one forgets the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, the presidential campaign of 1928, and the industrial strife not far short of class war which developed during the New Deal period...