Word: anti-fascist
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...wire barriers also seal the city's 65-mile western border with the Soviet zone. And that does not count the 830-mile Marxist Maginot line that seals East Germany's western frontier from the Baltic to Czechoslovakia. This is what Walter Ulbricht cynically calls the Democratic Anti-Fascist Protection Wall; already it boasts 500 watchtowers, 1,000 fortified bunkers, 93 miles of minefields, and throughout its length, the wide, plowed strips of earth where a footprint can be seen from a distance, alerting guards with savage dogs to another escape attempt...
...Thant became publicity director for the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League during its struggle to win freedom from the British, and served as the government's top press officer, winning high marks from newsmen for his honesty and knowledgeability. In 1953, when U Nu was Prime Minister, U Thant became his private secretary, speechwriter and alter...
...helped get the project started: Jewish Novelist Ilya (Out of Chaos] Ehrenburg, another man with a decided talent for landing on his feet. Although Stalin liquidated nearly every member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Ehrenburg was spared; it was even rumored that he personally fingered fellow members as Zionists...
...more honorable to betray one's party than one's fellow man-underlies The Fox and the Camellias, though Silone gives it a new twist. The setting is a Swiss farm near Brissago, where the novel's hero, Daniele, maintains a secret outpost for the Italian anti-Fascist underground, as Silone himself did in the '30s and early '40s. The farm is really Daniele's first loyalty, and his teen-aged daughter Silvia is his chief joy. Amid the cycle of the seasons, Silone fashions a triptych of father, daughter and nature, linked...
...worm of factional politics corrupts this Eden. A handsome young Fascist operative appears in the neighborhood and high-pressures a pitiable old spinster to inform on the local Italian colony. A militant anti-Fascist friend of Daniele's beats the Fascist agent bloody. Unbeknownst to Daniele, the wounded agent is brought to the farm, and in 48 hours of nursing him, Silvia falls wildly in love with the stranger. He represents himself as a respectable accountant, and Silvia's mother is all for a wedding, but the story ends instead in an agony of divided loyalties, with each...