Word: fabianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, Dr. Bela Fabian, a Hungarian emigre living in New York, reminded Britons of their share in this same upblazing of indignation. In a letter to Time & Tide, he recalled the visit to London of Austrian General Julius Jacob Haynau in 1850. Haynau was known in Britain as "The Hyena" because, in suppressing the Hungarian war, he executed 13 commanding generals at the fortress of Arad, and ordered women stripped and flogged in the streets for speaking for rebels...
...over a century, wrote Emigre Fabian, whenever Hungarians mourned their martyrs, the orators "never omitted to commend the British people for their sympathetic attitude . . . Now I read in the newspapers that Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khrushchev plan to visit England in April 1956 . . . For many hundred years the oppressed nations of Europe have regarded England as the champion of freedom and as the adversary of tyranny. It would therefore come as a great shock to Great Britain's faithful friends and admirers if Bulganin and Khrushchev were to be received with flowers and ovations...
Peking to Paris. Fabian recalls that as a young man in 1918 he heard Lenin in Petrograd make the famed speech in which he surveyed the Communist course to world triumph. "The road to Paris leads through Peking, the road to London through New Delhi." The warning he draws is not merely political and military; present also is the moral point that tyranny and injustice anywhere are the enemy of freedom and order anywhere...
...Although the group is called the Fabian Society, students do not have to be socialists to join," Harding said. The Society will only exclude advocates of totalitarianism as required by the Student League for Industrial Democracy of which the group will be an affiliate, Harding said. "We have no connection with any Fabian groups," he added...
...SLID are tax-exempt educational organizations which do not lobby or endorse political candidates, Farmer said. He likened the relationship between the LID and the Fabian Society to that between the ADA and the Harvard Liberal Union...