Word: anti-fascist
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...Papal Secretary of State in 1925, thereafter became one of the Vatican's most useful U. S. prelates. He it was who rebroadcast in English the late Pope's first radio speech. He it was who, in 1931, smuggled out of Italy, by airplane, an anti-Fascist papal encyclical which was in danger of being suppressed. When the present Pope visited the U. S. in 1936, no prelate was more in his company than Bishop Spellman...
...Sparkplug Siqueiros has led strikes in Mexico, preached socialist esthetics in Manhattan, fought in Spain as a colonel in the Loyalist Army. When he returned from the war last month he vowed to settle down and paint. Fortnight ago President Cardenas personally had him jugged for egging on an anti-Fascist crowd...
...Manifesto by a Physicist," and the omission has had repercussions which already have increased the gravity of the initial offense. Scientists from all over the country have been endorsing Bridgman's stand until now it seems likely that this individual protest may well become the spearhead of a concerted anti-fascist attack on the part of the nation's scientific leaders. Such action would not only fail to achieve its avowed end, but would in reality have results quite opposite to those desired by the earnest physics professor...
What the Professor overlooks is the Fascist army mobilized at the border, the fact that his Cabinet is riddled with Fascists, that his mistress is a Fascist spy. Though he is warned by his son and a mysterious detective, he tolerantly overlooks their youthful extremism. By the time he catches on, the Fascist armies are rolling in and the Professor is in prison, marked for execution "while attempting to escape." In plot, The Professor might be called downright hackneyed, but no anti-fascist novel has contained more skilful individual scenes-the Professor looking over a display of stylish gas masks...
...been cautiously critical, on occasion abstaining rather than voting against Mr. Chamberlain. Lord Baldwin's opposition has been determined but never in the open. He and other anti-Chamberlain Conservatives realize that an open quarrel would split the party, pave the way for a return of the Laborites to power. They foresee the possibility of keeping Mr. Chamberlain in office but surrounding him with such an anti-Fascist Cabinet of "national unity" that he would no longer be free to appease dictators. Significantly, Chairman Sandys squelched some Hundred Thousand organizers who wanted to adopt the slogan: "Chamberlain Must...