Word: anti-fascist
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Europe's newest dictator, King Carol II, squeezed the last squealing drop of press freedom from Rumania last week. That it was an easy thing to do, he knew. The last anti-Fascist Italian editor has long since been silenced. Few Germans today ever see an anti-Nazi publication. A smattering of troublesome pamphlets is still smuggled in the bottom of wheat barges ascending the Rhine from Holland, and such journals as the inflammatory bi-monthly Die Schiffart (Shipping) are printed in New York, hidden in the cargoes of German ships by U. S. longshoremen and sneaked into Germany...
...years ago, when Sinclair Lewis published It Can't Happen Here, a miscellaneous group of left-wing writers hailed that anti-Fascist novel with a dinner in a small Italian restaurant on Manhattan's East Side. There in an upstairs room Sinclair Lewis sat at the head of a long table facing a row of radical poets, proletarian novelists and dramatists, defenders of civil liberties, pamphleteers, listening uncomfortably to their speeches that welcomed him to their ranks. Said New Masses Editor Granville Hicks: "When I read Work of Art I wondered-is Red Lewis with us or against...
...Communist International's Magazine (Jan. 15, 1934--page 78) states: "Our most successful application of the united front has been in the anti-war and anti-fascist movement. We led a highly successful Congress against war . . . the Congress from the beginning was led by our party quite openly . . . the Congress set up a permanent organization on a federative basis called "The American League Against War and Fascism...
Catalonian anarchists supporting the Leftist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin asked leave to stage anti-Fascist rallies and parades on the first birthday of Spain's civil war last week, but were sternly repressed. Catalonia's President Luis Companys cared to risk no street riots among his Communist, Anarchist, Socialist and Republican supporters, and anyhow Leftist Spain was grimly straining every resource in its first large offensive...
...good friend of the brothers was Francesco Nitti, nephew of Francesco Nitti, Prime Minister of Italy, 1919-20. Uncle Nitti, a full-blooded anti-Fascist was hounded out of Rome in 1925, later went to live in Paris. It was with Nephew Nitti that Carlo escaped from his island prison. To the Süreté last week Francesco Nitti declared: "The murder of the Roselli brothers could have been committed . . . only by experts in political crime...