Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Better than all the speeches, flag waving and reviews which have marked the eleventh anniversary of Fascism in Italy, the trial of four men in Rome last week showed the world the stability of the Fascist regime. Leonardo Bucciglioni, Renato Cianca, Claudio Cianca and Pasquale Capasso were charged with the most serious crime in the Fascist calendar: plotting against the life of Il Duce, and exploding a terrorist bomb inside St. Peter's. Within the past decade more than one man has been tied to a chair and shot in the back for such an offense...
...result. Democracy, it is quite true, has been a failure in many countries but democracy was grafted in those countries on the stem of absolutism, and the graft does not do well. "If the people of this country in great numbers become adherents of either Communism or Fascism there can be only one end to it and that end is civil...
...critics: I am always a little amused and perhaps at times a little saddened-and I think the American people feel the same way-by those few writers and speakers who proclaim tearfully either that we are now committed to communism and collectivism, or that we have adopted fascism and a dictatorship. The real truth of the matter is that for a number of years in our country the machinery of democracy had failed to function. . . . There are some people, of course, who do not think things through; as, for example, the man who complained in one of yesterday morning...
...what men want now is not freedom but security; and security is precisely what is most lacking, and is precisely what Mr. Baldwin's type of government can not and will not guarantee. In face of this it is inevitable that some movement such as Fascism or Communism, in which the individual is completely subjugated to the state, and in which he becomes an integral part of it, should spring up. In return for unquestioning devotion, the state assumes many of his problems, notably the responsibility of feeding...
...many respects the decision is the strongest yet rendered as to the power of government over the individual. Were the doctrine written into law by the forty-eight States and supplemented by the Federal Government as to its sphere, it would be perfectly possible to introduce Fascism or Communism or any other form of State control and still stay within the Constitution. But it is significant that the court lays stress on the police power being vested in the forty-eight States. It will take action by forty-eight governments to give us Fascism or Communism, and each of these...