Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russia Without Communism. "Admittedly Communism has not been achieved in Russia!" cried Brass. "State Socialism has. Have not Fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed to have attained similar results? Have not both been achieved at the price of deprivation of personal liberty, sacrificed for the good of the State...
...Sunday sermons out of a liberal's bag of tricks-against "economic greed," against armament appropriations, against restrictions of civil liberties, in favor of all manner of social legislation. Preacher Ball also went outside to lecture for the American Civil Liberties Union, the American League Against War & Fascism. Church members who deplored all this lately obtained outside encouragement when the Chicago laymen's group got to spreading its illiberal ideas. Last week, with Dr. Ball's term about to expire and his reappointment by the conference likely unless something was done about it, the church...
Whatever its sins and indiscretions, the velocipede deserves no such tyrannical treatment. From Dunster House to Divinity the clicking of the chain and the whirring of the silver spokes are forever silenced, and Fascism has thrust its iron fist into the Yard for the first time. The insidious forces of United Shoe Machinery, General Motors, and Standard Oil, hurling the lie at those who said it couldn't happen here, have made a vital stab at the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity...
...Holding its national conference in Baltimore, the Church League for Industrial Democracy (Episcopal) voted 26-to-9 to affiliate with the American League Against War & Fascism. The conference also resolved in favor of equality of Negroes and whites in official Episcopal positions, went on record against the antisedition and anti-disaffection bills now pending in Congress...
Significance. Episcopalian Stone took words out of the mouths of his critics when he called his C. L. I. D. an unofficial minority. He might have anticipated more criticism if he had damned the American League Against War & Fascism as "Communist." Actually, with two Communists (Earl Browder, Clarence Hatha way) on its board of 15, A. L. A. W. F. is a varicolored united front organization em bracing Socialists, Liberals and Pinkos. Redbaiters make much of the fact that Communists publicly approve A. L. A. W. F. The U. S. Communist Party donated $100 to its last convention...