Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is fascism-ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power...
...running, in its "Voice of the People Forum," a letter attacking Jesus Christ, suggesting that he was the illegitimate son of Mary and a Roman soldier. The other publications, America thought, misled their readers on the Spanish war (three citations), birth control, ecclesiastical control in the Middle Ages, Fascism in Quebec, Catholic views on Mexico, the Church's oldtime attitude toward taking baths...
...even debated, an unprecedented abstention from the time-honored French pastime of heckling every Premier. Apparently the Deputies and Senators believed Edouard Daladier when he told them that French institutions were menaced by nationwide strikes as grave as those in Italy in 1922-to which the answer was Italian Fascism. The moderate Premier, with his reputation for courage and firmness, quietly threw such a scare into even the Communists that their leaders last week began offering cooperation in the settlement of sit-down strikes which had paralyzed the French metal and aviation industries, vital sinews of defense...
Next product of Poet MacLeish's top-working was a radio-play-poem, The Fall of the City, broadcast in 1937. A radio-studio innovation, it presented Fascism as a spook-in-armor, stalking in on and taking control of a nation paralyzed by inertia, fear and propaganda. Few listeners-in agreed on the poetic merits of what the rather wild air waves had been saying, but most did agree that if Fascism should come to the U. S. it would come as a man, not a spook, agreed also that in The Fall of the City Radio-Play...
...contradictions of poverty and wealth, of democracy and fascism, of happiness and misery in the world today. These are our problems. We cannot evade them, and as our generation approaches maturity, they become more acute. We believe that a united American people in their day to day efforts to meet these problems will come to realize that the only basic solution will be reached in the construction of a Socialist society. Executive Committee of the Harvard Branch...