Word: anti-fascist
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This meeting, sponsored by the Boston Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, and supported by many anti-Fascist organizations, such as the Marine Workers' Union, and the Irish Workers' Club, was to consist of speeches and the adoption of resolutions. Several hundred students from Harvard, Radcliffe, M. L. T., and other universities were present. But before the meeting could begin, the police brutally attacked the people present, driving them off the lot where they were peaceably gathered, into the streets, where the onsuing congestion provided the mounted police with an excuse for charging their horses into the crowd, riding...
...satisfied with the anti-Fascist riots and the "Massacre of Salacos," Greek newspapers last week had an even more startling story to follow it. The Greek Orthodox Church has in its guardianship the third of three temples of which all Christendom is jealous: the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and the Monastery of St. John in Patmos, one of the northernmost of the Dodecanese Islands.* On Patmos John is supposed to have hidden in a cave and received the vision of the Apocalypse (''The Book of Revelation''). The monastery...
Excited crowds at the trial of the four antiFascists last week heard the prosecutor demand the same penalty, insisting that one of the real instigators of the plot was the anti-Fascist exile Professor Gaetano Salvemini of Harvard. (From his Cambridge sanctuary Professor Salvemini promptly denied complicity.) But black-shirted judges no longer fear for their regime. Conspirator Capasso was acquitted. Claudio Cianca was let off with 18 years in jail. The other two got 30 years. Great tears of thankfulness rolled down their cheeks as the three prisoners were led from their iron cage to begin sentence...
...centuries the "scared money" of Europe has lied to Switzerland before revolution and tyranny. Many a White Russian, German Jew, Austrian Socialist and anti-Fascist Italian has his money in Swiss banks. The Swiss know that if ever they go off gold, "scared money" will flee from Switzerland for new sanctuary...
...three kings was supposed to prepare public opinion for a pact tying up all three Balkan kingdoms with Czechoslovakia, Greece and Turkey in an ambitious union against fascism. In this great design France and Russia, implacable foes of fascism, are supposed to be using their influence to forge an anti-fascist chain across Europe from the English Channel to the Golden Horn...