Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Un-American Activities Committee calls the Southern Conference for Human Welfare a Red-front group, the report, admittedly timed to coincide with the Conference's sponsorship of a Wallace speech in Washington, receives front-page play from New York to Los Angeles. At the same time, a booklet, "Fascism in Action," a lengthy, documented expose of Fascist activity in this country over the past few years is bottled up in a House committee, probably never to see the inside of a government printing-office. Its sister publication, "Communism in Action," was approved with alacrity and is now available...
...tones. When he arose to address a jampacked veto rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, his voice trembled with bitterness. The bill was "dastardly," "dangerously provocative," a "foul brew," he roared. "Our liberties are threatened by reactionary monopoly, driving us on the first long step toward domestic fascism. . . . From here henceforward, if this bill becomes law, the organized labor movement is on the defensive in this country. . . . Let us return to private life the backers of this ugly measure...
Harlow Shapley, Harvard's left-leaning astronomer, reported his discovery of an "ism" that he considers more dangerous than communism, fascism or any other: somnambulism-"seeming to be awake but actually...
...objective we shall cooperate with and help build the labor movement, as we consider it to be the most progressive force in American life. We shall at all times oppose discrimination in any from, whether of color, national origin, religion, political belief, or sex, and we shall fight against fascism wherever it may manifest itself. We shall give our full support to the development of unity among all countries, especially the Great Powers, for without such unity the United Nations can never be an effective instrument for the preservation of world peace...
...fiction. Europeans will easily recognize Dario as the high-ranking Fascist journalist, Curzio Malaparte, and so will U.S. readers of Malaparte's curious autobiography Kaputt (TIME, Nov. 11). As the profile of a likable opportunist, the novel is convincing, but as a study in the dialectics of Fascism it probes no deeper than the good manners...