Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since British public opinion was revolted by Adolf Hitler's ruthless blood-purge the Rothermere press drive for Mosley Fascism has been weakening and wobbling. A recent Daily Mail editorial announced the noble Lord's discovery that Britain "needs and will have no dictators." To Sir Oswald that sounded like welshing. He dashed off a letter to Lord Rothermere which the Daily Mail printed last week under the headline "DIVERGENCE OF IDEAS...
Bureaucracy. "I do not call this Naziism. God forbid! I do not claim it is Fascism or Communism. It is none of these. It is simply that meddlesome, irritating, confusing, undermining, destructive thing called bureaucracy. It is that form of government which steals away man's rights in the name of the public interests and taxes him to death in the name of recovery...
Though Communism and Fascism are the loudest sideshows in today's Bartholomew Fair, Socialism is still doing business at the old stand. By contrast with its fiercer-breathing rivals. Socialism has come to seem a much less frightening creed than oldsters used to think it. Even conservative quidnuncs, if they can bring themselves to read Author Brailsford's 329 big pages, will see that his doctrine is less fatal, more optimistic, than the present faiths of Rome. Berlin and Moscow. A sometimes brilliant and always lucid writer, Author Brailsford has given a masterful summation of the Socialist worldview...
...this Mr. Bourgeoisie? I'd like to meet him. From what the chairman says, he must be a pretty fine fellow. I'm here to answer the charges of the Communists. The chairman has announced that the issue before you tonight is that of Communism or Fascism. That's a lot of baloney." "Boooo!" "We're ordinary people here in Pittsburgh. We don't want to be bothered by Communists and Fascists. . . ." "Boooo! Boooo!" "I'm Mayor of Pittsburgh. I deserve a little respect. . . ." "Horsefeathers!" Flushed with exasperation, Mayor Mc-Nair cried...
...Oswald for his foreign and un-British resort to force in founding a "private army'' instead of sticking to straight politics. Laborites accused the police of improper Fascist leanings and undue readiness at Olympia to arrest working-class hecklers. Over the weekend six Cabinet Ministers dignified British Fascism by making speeches against it. Keynoters: Minister of Labor Sir Henry Betterton: "The country must decide at the next election whether constitutional government will remain or be destroyed." Colonial Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister: "If the disaster of Dictatorship comes to England it is certain that force will...