Word: antifasciste
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...head of the Berlin State Theatre), and produced a satirical political revue, Peppermill, in Munich, her birthplace. For this piece of audacity she had to flee Germany and her citizenship was revoked by Adolf Hitler. She met and married Britain's Poet W.H. Auden, like her a zealous antifascist. At the risk of her life, she returned secretly to Germany to get some of her father's manuscripts. Last year she arrived in Manhattan, applied for U.S. citizenship. Today she is engaged in the same trade as her father. Her angriest book, School for Barbarians, with a preface...
...Internationals' withdrawal will mean the end of a dramatic, widely publicized "antiFascist crusade" which started two years ago, when the first volunteers arrived. Since that time about 45,000 men, many of them Communists, some pure adventurers, some political exiles from Fascist countries, some idealistic democrats, some World War veterans and others mere youths, office boys, clerks and farm hands, have taken up arms for Leftist Spain. Many of them smuggled themselves across the French frontier in defiance of Non-Intervention Committee rules...
...Pope, however, last week negotiated a breathing spell for Catholic Action. After a series of conversations, President Lamberto Vignoli of Italian Catholic Action and Achille Starace, Fascist Party Secretary, reaffirmed an agreement made in 1931. By this deal, Catholic Action stays out of politics; its leaders may not be antiFascist. In return, the Party guarantees that no measures will be taken against its members who are also members of Catholic Action. In effect, reaffirmation of the deal served notice on Fascist Catholics that they must toe the party line-no matter what the Pope's views on anti-Semitism...
...secret, the Congregation revealed only that it had elected a Perpetual Vicar General for the order, to help the ailing General, Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowsky, with his manifold duties. The new Vicar General, a 37-year-old Belgian named Maurice Schurmans, was saluted by French Jesuits as an able antiFascist, of a neutral nation, who would help orient the policies of the Society of Jesus toward a world-wide battle against Fascism as well as Communism...
...Allen's place came another onetime Tribune correspondent, George Seldes, iconoclastic author of You Can't Print That! and Sawdust Caesar. But another snag turned up. Prospective advertisers balked at taking space in what they regarded as a pinko magazine. Ken became anti-communist as well as antifascist, some of its bright young liberal contributors were alienated and George Seldes, while retained as a contributor, was asked to do his work at home...