Word: antifascists
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...Wendell Phillips Club, long a leading liberal organization, draws most of its members from Harvard, although it includes students at Radcliffe, M. I. T., and Northeastern. Since its recent affiliation with the A. Y. D., the national antifascist youth movement, it has circulated petitions endorsing the Lynch-Dickstein Bill to restrict racial and religious propaganda from the mails and has backed the program drawn up by Professor Gordon W. Allport, head of the Psychology Department, to fight race prejudice...
...ardent antifascist, Robeson later went to Spain, sang for the Loyalists on the battlefield, his great voice carrying into the Insurgents' camp. Late in 1939 he decided to come home...
...issue the Congress reached a stalemate: the character of World War II. Two motions on this were voted equally-one, that it is a democratic, antiFascist, liberating war; the other, that it is an imperialist war among the great powers for world control. Fascism had convinced Latin American students of its evils; the Allies had not yet convinced them of Allied aims...
...whatever else Fiorello is or is not, he is a stanch antiFascist. And antiFascists, paradoxically, are not in the best of standing with the policy-makers of the officially anti-Fascist forces...
Died. Guglielmo Ferrero, 71, famed Italian historian (The Grandeur & Decadence of Rome, The Reconstruction of Europe), veteran antiFascist; in Geneva, Switzerland. Admired by Teddy Roosevelt (for his pointed parallels between the politics of Caesar and Tammany), Ferrero launched his world reputation with a U.S. lecture tour in 1908. Under Mussolini, his gift for such parallelisms led first to his "quarantine" in Italy, then his expulsion...