Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quit for the week. Outside of giving final approval to the Treasury-Post Office Appropriations Bill and providing $5,000,000 for Federal participation in the New York World's Fair of 1939, its most newsworthy activity was listening to a speech by Idaho's Borah against fascism...
COLLECTIVISM: A FALSE UTOPIA-William Henry Chamberlin-Macmillan ($2). A veteran Russian correspondent (Christian Science Monitor) defines fascism and communism as interchangeable parts of the same death-dealing machinery...
...four years after Hitler came to power, Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann, greatest of exiled German writers, evaded questioners who pressed him for his opinion of fascism in Germany. When he visited the U. S. in 1934 and 1935-the first time to be honored on his 5gth birthday, the second to receive an honorary degree from Harvard-he maintained a controlled silence about politics that was exceptional among literary exiles,,extraordinary in view of the anti-Nazi activities of his brother Heinrich, his son Klaus and daughter Erika. Sometimes he said he kept silent to protect his German readers. Sometimes...
...fascism, though Ortega's first remarks sound coolly friendly, he ends by analyzing it in terms no fascist will like: "If no one believes firmly in any political form, if there is no single institution which warms all hearts, it is natural that the victory should go to one which despises all existing forms and institutions and occupies itself with other things. . . . [But] the moment there arises a new principle of political law which can win the unstinted enthusiasm of a social group, fascism will vanish into thin...
...CONQUEST OF POWER (2 Vols.)-Albert Weisbord-Covici-Friede ($7.50). Ambitiously attempted 1,208-page encyclopedia tracing the rise and decline of Liberalism, Anarchism, Syndicalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism; by a onetime U. S. Communist...