Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While delegates of the 21 American Republics met in Havana last week to face the transoceanic threat of fascism, the struggle of democracy v. fascism was already making history in the Western Hemisphere. Bombs, of the firework variety, were set off in the streets of Santiago, Chile by the Popular Socialist Vanguard -former Chilean Nacista (Nazi) Party. At the same time members strewed the town with pamphlets, attacking tough little pockmarked President Pedro Aguirre Cerda for pardoning the carabineros who shot down 62 Nazi students in the abortive 1938 revolt...
Across the towering Andes, in Brazil the struggle between fascism and democracy was just as keen but less violent. The forces of democracy were represented by the U. S. S. O'Brien, U. S. destroyer No. 415, which put into the big coffee port of Santos on a good-will visit three weeks ago. Democracy won that round, not entirely to the pleasure of the Brazilians. Finding the illegal bicho lottery not much different from Harlem's numbers game, the bluejackets hopefully plunked down their nickels on No. 415. As luck would have it No. 0415 turned...
...other respects fascism appeared to have the upper hand. Reliable reports indicated that German munitions are now being shipped secretly to Brazil via Italy and Spain. But the battle for peaceful trade was even more critical. A number of Yankee exporters who, after the war began, rushed to get into the South American trade, failed to take the precaution of hiring Brazilian agents with references from U. S. firms. As a result many of them hired Nazi undercover agents, who quickly reported to headquarters the prices quoted by the U. S. firms so that Germans could underbid...
...convention floor, was whispered only in corridors and 'caucuses. On the fourth day it exploded on the floor after a Denver "regular" presented a resolution cautiously condemning subversive movements, "Trojan horses or fifth columns." Up sprang a Seattle insurgent to offer an amendment: "That Communism, Naziism and Fascism are not . . . indicative of [the Guild's] beliefs . . . and that this organization will not tolerate any attempt by these subversive elements to ... control [Guild] policies...
...himself with Bolshevik brevity) is a big (6 ft.), rubber-jointed, rugby-shouldered Oxonian, with watchful, musing eyes, a somewhat rabbity mouth, puffy lips. In his youth he was a member of the British Labour Party. He and dark, lean, taut Sir Oswald Mosley (now imprisoned leader of British Fascism) stood for Parliament at the same time, quit the Labour Party at the same time. When Sir Oswald formed the National Party, young Strachey became his left-hand man. But by 1935 the young men were so far apart that Lady Mosley cried: "He claims to be a friend...