Word: anti-fascist
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Shortly after graduation, he contributed an essay entitled "They Say in the Colleges" to an anti-Fascist collection entitled "Zero Hour." He set out to speak "not for my fellows but about them," but first he established his own position: "I believe in the dignity of the individual," the young graduate wrote, "in government by law, in respect for the truth, and in a good God; these beliefs are worth my life, and more...
...Time to Meditate. All the while, U Nu plaintively talked of retiring to a Buddhist monastery to meditate and write, and for two years his written resignation has been in the hands of Burma's ruling coalition, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League...
...Communists, a gain of about 40 seats. Determined not to let the Reds gain by political means what they failed to win by force, U Nu's colleagues agreed to let him leave the premiership "for a year" to devote all his time to political reorganization of the Anti-Fascist League...
...fought elections, the ballyhoo men in the wagons that roved through Rangoon's streets all one night last week apologized humbly for disturbing the voters' sleep. But their loudspeakers kept on blaring just the same, extolling hour after hour the virtues of Premier U Nu's Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. Next day, with the help of virtually every available automobile in town, the party workers were as busy as well-trained Tammany heelers getting out the vote. Carloads of voters were hauled to the polls after a brief stopover to check their enrollment...
...brutal story of treachery unfolded at the trial. Strasserra was an authentic hero of the resistance, with an unimpeachably anti-Fascist record. Trained by the OSS at Bari, he and an aide were slipped into Genoa in mid-1944 to report German troop movements and to establish liaison with resistance groups. When he lost his radio in a Gestapo raid, he and his companion lit out for the hills. He found Devil Moranino, and assuming him to be a fellow patriot and partisan, asked Moranino to get him to Switzerland, where he would be able to re-establish contact with...