Word: antifasciste
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Some of them, the ones I really can't take, tell you they are antiFascist. They stand up in a drawing room with a drink in their mitts in front of a nice big fireplace and scream out their speeches against what is wrong. Or after a big buffet supper they are upset because our fellows didn't have such a good day at the front. But these same speechmakers can't find time to come over, or they never find the time to drop a line each week or send a food box to cheer...
Chief source is a Nazi ex-officer (George Coulouris) who, pretending to the occupying troops that he is an antiFascist, shelters with an unwilling bourgeois housewife (Helen Beverly). He also toys viciously, in his spare time, with her nubile daughter (Starlet Nancy Gates). His most useful dupe is an emotional miller (Paul Guilfoyle) who, easily led to believe that the Allies are eager to hoodwink and exploit his fellow townsmen, stirs up labor trouble and blows up a military jail. His most dangerous enemy is a repentant Nazi prisoner (Eric Feldary), whose murder he brings about and who, with...
...antifascist journalist (Michael Redgrave) who raged through the 1930s with a Cassandra's customary success, retires to sit out World War II on Thunder Rock, in a Great Lakes lighthouse. Embittered, soaked with liquor and self-pity, he is content to let the world go hang. While it hangs, he entertains himself by conjuring up in his imagination a number of immigrants from Europe who drowned near his lighthouse a century ago. Before long they all but take on flesh & blood, act out for him the tragedies and the defeats of their own lifetimes...
Upton Sinclair, 65, vegetarian, moralist, Socialist, muckraker, politician, agnostic, Californian, abstainer, feminist, movie producer, violinist, physical culturist, antiFascist, antiCommunist; friend of Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Einstein; one of the most prolific U.S. authors (67 books, 500 pamphlets); prohibitionist son of a bibulous father and twice-married critic of American marital habits, last week gave book-length vent to his latest enthusiasm: Franklin Roosevelt...
...certain reputation as an antiFascist. He did have trouble with Mussolini, but their fights were due more to delinquency than to politics. When he went to Brussels to claim his bride, an exiled anti-Fascist took a badly aimed shot at him. Ever after he raised his hand in the Fascist salute and, like his father, gave the Duce no trouble. Lately, ordinary Italians have dubbed him lo stupido nazionale and il buffone (clown...