Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...his.ninth-floor eyrie. Said he with aplomb: 1) "The announcement of the Pact has done no injury whatsoever to the Communist Party cause here. I know my Party"; 2) the Soviet Union and the Communist Party in the U. S. have neither abandoned nor compromised their fight on world Fascism; 3) the Pact constitutes "a distinct contribution to world peace"; 4) when disclosed in toto, the agreement would leave Russia a way out if Germany turned aggressor. (Until last week, U. S. Communists supposed that Germany already was an aggressor...
...resilient internal structure, its genius for rationalization. Its first week in gyration produced no public defections of bigwig Reds, no convincing evidence of mass withdrawals even among its Jewish members. Chiefly evident were changes in the Party's U. S. "line." Hitherto the emphasis was on opposition to Fascism; now it was on Peace (but not, in the Party organs, "at any price"). By bedding with Hitler, Joseph Stalin was shown to have done him a fatal favor (PACT SPLITS AXIS WAR ALLIANCE, headlined the Daily Worker). That Russia had replaced Japan in the Axis, the Communists perforce denied...
...such is of more interest than import to the U. S. people at large. What happened last week to its ardently nurtured Popular Front was funny to many, painful to many. On the theory that democratic governments and peoples could be usefully linked in a world front against Fascism to save the imperiled U. S. S. R., Communists in 1935 postponed the revolution, began to woo. They fashioned a domestic program so broad that no liberally minded citizen or group could oppose all of it all the time, thus were able to claim vast support for "collective security." One stanch...
...stanch individual in the Popular Front was Columnist Heywood Broun, whose American Newspaper Guild was well up front. Last week Heywood Broun recorded his anguish: ". . . The Soviet has here and now contributed to the might and menace of Hitler. . . . Fascism is still deadly, but the popular front now becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible. . . . The masquerade is over. The dominoes are dropped and it now becomes possible to look at the faces of the various ones who pretend to be devoted to the maintenance of democracy...
...Master's Voice. Whatever have been the shortcomings of Fascism, Benito Mussolini, in this 17th year of his regime, can still be said to be revered by the majority of his understanding Italian people. That his reputation for political infallibility has suffered, however, is no secret, nor is there the slightest difficulty in finding out why. The alliance with Germany has not set well with the Italian people...