Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minds of most U. S. readers, England's Oxford Poets-W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, Michael Roberts, Christopher Isherwood, Rex Warner - are lumped together not only because they are contemporaries, but for: 1) their viewpoint (a sort of oblique communism), and 2) their literary method. Recently, however, the Oxford Poets have shown signs of setting up separate literary establishments; their differences are developing faster than their similarities. If this tendency continues at the present rate, it is not inconceivable that in another decade their similarities will be no closer than those of Harvard...
...three nations which are bound in a pact against Communism are (1 Spain, France and Italy, 2 Italy, Japan and Spain, 3 Japan, Italy and Germany, 4 Britain...
...reason given for banning Tim Buck who was to have spoken next Monday was that it would be in direct violation of the law, and that McGill students were above all law abiding. According to a law of the Provincial Legislature it is illegal for any person to propagate Communism in the Province of Quebec. Any person so doing is liable to three months to one year in jail as is the owner or proprietor of any hall permitting his building to be used for such purpose...
...Quebec's Padlock law which does the Massachusetts Oath Bill one worse in that it is really restricting freedom of speech in the Canadian province. As in Massachusetts, the fight for the repeal of the law seems for the time being to be doomed, and as in Massachusetts communism is the excuse for its existence...
MONTREAL, Feb. 16:--The Padlock Law is the first shield erected by a reactionary finance capital in Quebec to save it from the little silver bullets of free thought and speech. The straw man that is bearing the brunt of the Padlock Law is the red spectre of Communism. In its name the 'Red Raiders' have made use of the padlock some sixty times to date...