Word: anti-fascist
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Manhattan's Theatre Arts Committee, composed of such Broadwayites as Robert Benchley, Jed Harris, Lillian Hellman, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles, is not friendly to fascism. On three fronts- theatre, cinema, radio-it has been making anti-fascist lunges for all it is worth. The committee's latest enterprise is TAC, a midnight cabaret presented on Mondays at Manhattan's weatherbeaten Chez Firehouse. In a free-&-easy atmosphere of cigarets and drinks, audiences can watch a revue modeled after Pins and Needles and possessing much of its muscular merit...
...chapters until it was long enough to be published as a novel, Black Rock. It was an immediate success, and with its successors. The Sky Pilot and The Man from Glengarry, sold about 5,000,000 copies. Connor kept on preaching, became a political figure, was a leading Canadian anti-Fascist until his death last year...
With the greatest possible reserve, seeing that the Soviet Union is linked in friendship with the French Republic by treaty, last week's Moscow proposals for an anti-Fascist conference were "accepted in principle" by Paul-Boncour. To French journalists he made it unmistakable that Paris will not act in the matter without London, which had already reacted negatively. When Premier Juan Negrin of desperate Leftist Spain went flying to Paris and begged Messrs. Blum & Paul-Boncour for aid last week he was cold-shouldered...
Enraged French Leftists, including some War veterans, staged a riot 4,000 strong along the Seine, shouting anti-Fascist slogans, and four Paris policemen were stabbed with knives. Soon afterward 3,000 leaders of Communist groups in all parts of France were summoned to Paris for a conference with French Red No. 1, Maurice Thorez. The 3,000 arrived shouting "Open the frontier to Spain!" and "Thorez in Power!" Orator Thorez instructed them to incite the French masses "against their enemies, both without and within...
...Italian good will flight had been a mild fiasco. To avoid appearing Fascist-minded, the Brazilian Government gave the fliers a cool welcome. Meanwhile, the Buenos Aires Critica, chief anti-Fascist organ of the Argentine press, decried the flight so bitterly that Argentina was omitted from the itinerary...