Word: antifascists
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Planning East Suicide. Still, for all its drawbacks, Germany looks-and is-a lot better than a few years ago. Ironically, the Wall−which Ulbricht calls the "antifascist defense shield"−made the difference. Before the Wall went up in 1961, East Germany's economy was on the ropes, as many of the brightest workers, scientists and technocrats joined the exodus of 3,000,000 East Germans who voted with their feet and went Westward. Since then, 24,500 East Germans have managed to escape (137 were killed in the attempt), but most people have accepted the idea...
Died. Maurilio Cardinal Fossati, 88, Archbishop of Turin since 1930, and one of Italy's most respected churchmen, who was a leading contender for the papacy in 1939 at the young age of 62, went through World War II as an active antiFascist, denouncing the mass transport of Italian laborers to Germany, sheltering Jewish refugees in the homes of Catholics, then, in 1945, persuading the retreating German army to bypass Turin, thus sparing the city from devastation; of pneumonia; in Turin...
...less mild pacificism, all encased in an overall utopian-ism.'' Against this. Niebuhr reasserted that man is born to sin and striving and cannot dodge either. He attacked both religious liberals and political conservatives, made enemies on the right as what was later called a "premature antifascist'' and enemies on the left as an early antiCommunist. In his book The Nature and Destiny of Man, he spelled out his paradoxical view of man's need to plan and struggle toward ends which his built-in sin will inevitably flaw...
...crowd cold until a label was attached explaining it as "anti-war." Since then, it has been a favorite. Likewise, Peter Blume's surrealistic The Eternal City, in which a bust of Benito Mussolini peers balefully across the Roman Forum, got low marks until it was labeled "antifascist...
...famed Doria family, which traces its history to 12th century Genoa, owner (in Rome's Palazzo Doria) of one of the world's most celebrated private galleries (included: Velásquez' portrait of an earlier Pamphilj, Pope Innocent X); of arteriosclerosis; in Rome. A bitter antiFascist, who condemned Mussolini's war on Ethiopia, he suffered 15 years of mistreatment by Fascists, became wartime "underground governor" of Rome and, appointed by the Allies, the city's first postwar mayor...