Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duce, once established, sent Prince Caetani to Washington as Ambassador. In two years he exhausted every means of trying to make U. S. citizens see his own vision of Fascism as a regime giving Italy an imposed, Augustan and salutary peace...
...United States of 1934 can be run in the same manner as the United States of 1789, in spite of the nostalgia of those three associations for those good old days. Of course the people of their ilk might step in and take control; but that would be fascism or something like it and not very close to the days of 1789. Not even Franklin Roosevelt or Herbert Hooever or Upton Sinclair or Commander Hayes of the American Legion can hope to supply a cure for our troubles and still cling to the methods of a hundred and fifty years...
...campus was that the visitors should be received as guests, regardless of their political views. Most U. S. students who were interested enough to have any attitude at all accepted this gentlemanly one without question. In sizable cities there were usually four or five hotheads who bawled "Down with Fascism!" in the visitors' hearing, but no smalltown collegian so far forgot his manners...
...until the visitors reached Manhattan last week did their political creed make really riotous headlines. At New York University a crowd of students gathered outside the Hall of Fame, yelled "To Hell with Fascism!" The Italians marched out, cheerfully drowned the hecklers with a chant of "Il Duce! Il Duce! Il Duce! II Duce!" Policemen prevented more than a few mild fisticuffs...
...immediate past it has witnessed the much-heralded visit of Ernest Hanfstaengl, the offer of the so-called Dr. Hanfstaengl scholarship, and its refusal, the visit of the German battleship "Karlsruhe," the visit of the Italian Fascist students, and a number of Anti-Fascist demonstrations. Aside from outside influences, Fascism is being preached from within by large sections of the Alumni, and by reactionary elements of the student body, such as the Harvard CRIMSON. As you know, this Fascist offensive is part of the campaign to prepare students...