Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though we are prone to take it for granted that the two great capitals of Europe, the poles around which the major political conflicts revolve, are Moscow and Berlin or Rome, Walter Millis has serious doubts. In his mind, Fascism and Communism do not occupy the world stage, except in a very limited military sense. He finds the real capitals to be London and Moscow--democracy versus dictatorship. England to him is the symbol of steady progress, of rock built upon rock, of the stability which comes with age and conservatism and gradualness. Mr. Millis does not repress his admiration...
...finally set out by train for London, arrived at Victoria Station wearing a Storm Trooper's brown shirt. To his official British welcomers he sounded off: "Der Führer is convinced that the only real danger for Europe and the British Empire is the spread of Communism-that most terrible of all diseases-terrible because people only realize the real danger when it is too late! Closer collaboration between our two countries in this sense is not only important, but in my opinion a vital necessity!" To this, British Reds replied by chalking the street in front...
President Franco replied to Mr. Howard's questionnaire in 1,600 words. Boiled down they amounted to this: Spain's White Leader is "an admirer of the way in which Fascism has stemmed the advance of Communism in many countries. He would remake Spain into a close approximation of the Italian Fascist Corporative State as set up and run by Il Duce. He answered in the negative Mr. Howard's question whether he is a Free Mason, adding a blanket disclaimer that his Whites have anything to do with the Grand Orient. Franco affirmed that his Government...
...Bolshevik Far Eastern Army under able General Vasily Constantinovich Blucher. In 1924-27, Comrade Blucher, under the nom de guerre of "General Galen," was chief military adviser to Generalissimo Chiang, then supplied by Soviet Russia with money and munitions. After the Generalissimo had conquered China and publicly renounced Communism, Red General Galen was permitted to "escape" via Shanghai. He took ship there unmolested and quietly returned to Moscow, trained many a Chinese Red Commander in Russia, is big brother of the Red State in China...
...years of its existence did as much for city planning, furniture design and painting as it did for architecture. Director Gropius has always insisted that he is no Red. After he left in 1928 to do low-cost housing work in Berlin, however, the school became a hotbed of Communism. But despite the fact that the unembarrassed Reds of both sexes slept and bathed together, the story goes that only one illegitimate child was ever born to the Dessau Bauhaus. When nosy Dessau city fathers tried to expel the mother, the excited students paraded through the streets of the town...