Word: anti-fascist
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...attorneys brought in witnesses to try to prove that Adler and Draper had supported a number of Communist fronts. They had performed for some, including the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, which had nourished Gerhart Eisler while he was in the U.S. and helped him in his escape to Russia. Ex-Communist Louis Budenz and two former undercover FBI agents testified flatly that they had known of Adler and Draper in the party as Communist entertainers...
Meanwhile 11 members of the Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee have appealed their conviction on a contempt of Congress charge, and the Committee itself waits for the Court's promised review of the legality of the Attorney General's subversive list. The Court will probably grant a review of the Bailey case, involving a woman fired for "failing" her federal loyalty check. Thus the entire program may be reviewed this term...
...first months of Fascism, he was slow to realize what Mussolini stood for. But when dictatorship established itself, he turned his back on Rome. In Naples, he edited a scholarly anti-Fascist magazine called La Critica, defied the government with his book History as the Story of Liberty. Once a band of young Black Shirts threatened to storm his home, fled when confronted by Signora Croce. Beyond that, the Fascists never dared to molest the Croces. "There is one man in all Italy whom I fear," Mussolini once remarked-"Croce. And I fear him because I do not understand...
...rapidly declined. Through Greece's coups d'état and minor revolutions, Sophoulis had usually tried to stick close to the middle of the road. He was an antiroyalist but he served five Greek kings; he was an anti-Communist but he was frequently supported by the Communists in Parliament; he was an anti-Fascist but during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-41) he simply lived in retirement. After World War II, he advocated collaboration with the Communist rebels, proclaimed an amnesty when he became Premier...
Fast was one of the 18 members of the Executive Board of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee who were convicted for contempt of Congress because they would not show their books and records to the House un-American Activities Committee...