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...burbling of the American governor is one of the thoughts behind the savage crack that one honest, deeply anti-Fascist Munich businessman made to me: "Despite all the reeducation, sometimes it seems that Military Government is determined to convince Germans again that they really are a superior race...
Beniamino Gigli, 58, still one of the world's great tenors, who left the Met in 1939 ("I do not like America ... A general air of nervousness, cheapness and corruption") to go back to Fascist Italy, waited until 35 minutes before curtain time in London, then canceled a concert because of laryngitis. The crowd of 8,000 disappointed music lovers milled around the locked doors of Royal Albert Hall, jamming traffic for almost an hour before an extra force of bobbies could persuade them to go home...
...D.P.s bore down on the theater, smashed its marquee, began a free-for-all with the police. Rubber truncheons and fire hoses did little to check the rioters, some of whom-dared the police to go ahead and shoot. A British officer was beaten amid cries of "Fascist!" Some German passers-by pounced on the Jews, but most only watched. When rocks began to fly, one elderly German woman was seen carrying stones for the Jews to throw...
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, American League for Peace & Democracy, American Youth for Democracy (see EDUCATION), Civil Rights Congress, Council for Pan-American Democracy, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, National Committee to Win the Peace, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, National Federation for Constitutional Liberties...
Next day, 332 delegates met in the same hall to create its Communist-front successor: American Youth for Democracy. It was to be, according to Y.C.L. ex-President Max Weiss's prospectus, an "advanced anti-fascist youth organization in which Communists play a leading role...