Word: antifascists
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When the committee chairman, New Jersey's Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, directed him to desist and be sworn, he refused. Thomas warned: "Remember, you are a guest of the country." This was too much. Eisler began beating on the table and yelling, "I am an antiFascist. I am not a guest of the country. I am a political prisoner...
interpreter, now a militant antifascist...
...cannot by any stretch of the imagination be described as entertainment. It is old (1938) and foreign-language (Spanish, with English titles). Its subject, the Spanish Civil War, has always aroused in the U.S. too little general interest or too much special controversy. It is Leftist, as well as antiFascist, and it was acted by nonprofessionals. It lacks the sex, the sensationalism and the conventional narrative grace of an otherwise comparable, fine film, Open City. Even movie highbrows may be dismayed by its jagged, fiercely uningratiating style...
...know to get a straight line on Kaputt. Curzio Malaparte, born near Florence in 1898, was a Fascist even before the 1922 march on Rome. Says Malaparte: I too, was of course, a Fascist as was everybody at that time for the same reasons for which everybody is now antiFascist. He became editor of Turin's influential La Stampa and stood very well with the Duce. Later he got into trouble with Fascist big shots (even sat in jail a bit), but it was all personal, not ideological...
...Milan, 79-year-old Arturo Toscanini, Wagnerian and symphonic conductor and renowned antiFascist, reacted to the news by canceling a benefit concert he was scheduled to give this week in Paris. Later he canceled a London engagement, offered to reimburse the Music, Art and Drama Society for its losses on 2,800 tickets. In protesting against "Italy's humiliation," he echoed the frenzied lamentations of Italian politicians and editors, one of whom wrote with rare unconscious humor: "Now the stab in the back has been repaid...