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...people of the Southern States are extremely susceptible to Fascist doctrines; they show a strong liking for Fascist methods and violence. I do not believe a great deal of time and effort would need to be expended to convert a majority of these people to the Fascist faith. This having occurred, what then might not befall America...
Last week, on the 24th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome, Fascist banners fluttered from Roman public buildings, pamphlets glorifying Il Duce showered on the streets of Milan and Naples, nostalgic Sicilian crowds chanted Giovinezza, the Fascist hymn. And in the nationwide municipal elections Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party registered a spectacular 70% gain over its total vote last June, ran second (behind a Communist-Socialist coalition) in Rome, third in Naples, first in Palermo...
...much of a Fascist was Giannini? Homo's brisk leap from a weak fifth to at least a strong third among Italian parties made that Italy's No. 1 political question. The pudgy onetime theatrical producer (who looks like a jovial Eric von Stroheim) denounced Mussolini, of course, but he also said: "You cannot govern without exercising dictatorial power." His program was vague. On domestic questions it was a hash of the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, Henry Wallace and Franklin D. Roosevelt, but with a strong flavor of Huey Long. Playing no favorites, Giannini hailed the Republican sweep...
...American's only English-language competition is the Paris Herald Tribune, which arrives with two-day-old news, and the British Army's stodgy Union Jack. To expatriate Americans the American is a daily breath of home, but to Italian readers, reared on Fascist journalism, it is sometimes baffling. Once it ran a letter from a U.S. reader suggesting that the Colosseum be razed and a children's play center put up in its place. Next day Italian tempers exploded in the press and radio. An American editor had to go on the air and explain that...
Fischer said that Russia is apparently using all its resources to prepare for the eventually of another war. His thesis was that Russia is motivated by fear that the United States will suffer a depression and become a fascist state. He proposed as a cure an American policy that will take into consideration the possibility of a Russian "course of world aggression...