Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, impossible to see the long black arm of Fascism on the regimented life in the famous parietal "two women" rule introduced last fall. The regulation, however, assumes a magnitude out of all proportion to its original intent...
...build him up handsomely as a candidate to succeed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Sir Samuel has already cheered Navy-loving Britons by telling them that the battleplane has by no means yet supplanted the battleship. Last week he drew thunderous London cheers with a bristling disparagement of both Fascism and Communism...
...talk of a class war in Great Britain and the British Empire is to talk of a calamity that has not the least chance of befalling us!" was the First Lord's welcome prophecy. "When I hear people speak of Communism and Fascism as if they were the greatest constitutional experiments of our time, I feel how little do these fanatics and theorists understand the magnitude of the experiment of the British Empire...
Written when Huey P. Long was still alive, the novel represented U. S. Fascism as making headway in 1936. Last week, with no such trend in sight, the time was billed in the programs as "Very Soon-or Never." The main outlines of the novel are preserved, but instead of trying to dramatize a patchwork of fragments from the book, Collaborators Lewis & Moffitt wisely created some new incidents on which to prop the play. One of them shows Corpo troops going from house to house to break radio tubes because Senator Trowbridge is broadcasting news of Corpo atrocities from Canada...
Critics found many a flaw last week in It Can't Happen Here as a piece of dramaturgy. Despite its faults, it is a serviceable and occasionally terrifying presentation of Sinclair Lewis' thesis that the rubber-truncheon and concentration-camp sort of Fascism is a creeping disease and not a sudden explosion. Called to a Manhattan stage for a speech after last week's first performance, Author Lewis appeared, looked at his watch, barked: "I've been making a speech since seven minutes to nine," and vanished into the wings...