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Osensibly gunning for members of communist, fascist, and totalitarian groups only, the order encompasses a disproportionately wide field and gives alarming powers of accusation to the Attorney General. By allowing federal inquisitors to arraign any man remotely sympathetic to a foreign ideology, the President has opened the way for subversion of democratic rights to the dictates of public opinion and the fears of hyper-sensitive officials. Under the new plan, the Attorney-General has the power to decide which groups constitute a menace to the security of the nation. This widespread discrimination in the hands of an over-zealous...
...argument has been made before, sometimes with more tact, sometimes with more violence-never with such a compelling combination of chilling logic and prophetic fire. Everybody will want to disbelieve it. "Fascist warmongering" will "be among the gentler terms applied to it. Only one defense of Burnham's book can be made: it is-appallingly-true...
...West of Germany, Hitler and Himmler intended to set up a new state called Burgundy, which would sprawl across parts of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. The capital city: either Ghent or Dijon. Its chancellor would be Léon Degrelle, Belgian Fascist leader...
...Class Fascist." By then the House was deep in invective over another sort of execution-the Government's "guillotine" to speed two of its key measures (nationalization of inland transport, and town-&-country planning). Churchill stormed that the Government motion to cut off committee discussion was "strangulation of parliamentary debate . . . legislation by Government decree." Stung by ironic cheers from the Labor side, he lashed at the "idea of the government of the people, by the officials, for the party bosses," cried that "the liberties and the free life of Britain are in great danger" from Socialism...
...bite on a bitter note: "Is it in order for the right honorable gentleman to call those of us who have done a little bit for our country Nazis? If so, the right honorable gentleman may as well understand quite clearly that I regard him as a low-class fascist." That set off a verbal Donnybrook. Cries of "tyrants . . . gag . . . come on, Hitler" crackled across the gilded chamber...