Word: fascists
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...people, all manner of counterrevolutionary Trotskyites, Bukharinites and other traitors and capitulators. . . . It is common knowledge that. . . Britain and the United States launched their biggest [military] operations only after . . . it had become clear that the Soviet Army was able to ... liberate the peoples of Europe from the German fascist yoke . . . without Allied assistance...
...picture tells of its war-and of the world as a whole-in microcosm. On one small part of the front, hideously ill-equipped except in courage, Loyalist airmen prepare-to raid a Fascist airfield and to blow up a Fascist-held bridge. In this tiny, heroic effort, to no ultimate use, they succeed-and are destroyed in the attempt. In slow streams down the rocky mountainside, which are like the streaming of the nation's blood, the people of the region gather to watch, weep and salute, as dead and wounded airmen are brought down from their high...
...essay on the contemporary French fascist Charles Maurras is also an examination of the French school that connects Gallic tradition with purely Greek and Roman origins and abhors the "barbarian" influences of Anglo-Saxondom. The study of General De Gaulle (written when the Free French had their headquarters in London) has much to say about the traditional reluctance of the French to accept a leader whose feet are not actually on French soil. And in addition to his wealth of purely French material, Author Brogan draws constantly and easily on analogies and contrasts from British and U.S. history and characteristics...
Some Argentines were not happy about what they called "a tidal flow of holy water." La Prensa published part of a manifesto of the underground Italian "Fascist Democratic Party": "Our aim is to export Fascist elements to those countries that will listen to them in their propaganda for the fight now going on in Italy." Conceivably it referred to Argentina, a third of whose population is already Italian. Replied pro-Perón El Laborista: "Our doors are open to all men of good will...
Sinclair Lewis, whose last try at movie writing was an anti-fascist horse opera (junked as "bad box office"), was back for another try-this time a satire on Adam & Eve. Two days after he hit Hollywood, Babbitt's aging creator: 1) went to a big party at Gossipist Hedda Hopper's, 2) talked like a native. "The movies are no more commercial," declared Lewis, "than any other form of art. . . . There's no reason to suppose that a poor man starving in a garret writes better than a rich man living in a mansion. . . . Human beings...