Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Signor Filippo Tomaso Marinetti founded Futurism in Art with a famed manifesto on Feb. 20, 1909. In the name of Futurism he later urged letting canals run through art galleries-to blot out the pestilential past. Still later Signor Marinetti fought for Fascism, and became a close friend of II Duce. Down through the years he poured out Futurist manifestoes echoing Fascist policies...
...Vatican last week, Fascism had its adherents, although obviously not in any such blasphemous terms. There were churchmen who felt that the time had come to bless the victors, in advance...
Ireland's hatches were thus battened about as tight as they could be, except for one factor-the outlawed, extreme-nationalist I. R. A. Nothing short of the unification of all Ireland under its own brand of fascism suits the hotheaded Irish Republican Army, which maintains a complete underground government (and constitution) of its own. Since 1938 its 7,500 youthful members (plus 15,000 fellow travelers) have followed the wild-eyed, bomb-Britain policy of 46-year-old, super-radical Chieftain Sean Russell. There is reason to believe that the intransigent I. R. A.-sters are getting money...
Last week Benito Mussolini kept the Allies in a dither, the Italian people in a lather. While he took his time about leading up to Fascism's grand climax, war, his purchasing agents in the U. S. operated more feverishly, less obtrusively. Their job was to move as much strategic material as possible out of the U. S. before Italy is branded a legal belligerent and a moral foe. They did pretty well...
...Professor Haldane's career as a scientist has been remarkable, both in its scientific and non-scientific aspects; he gave aid to the Spanish Loyalist Government as a consultant in the problem of gas attacks, and as a lecturer in Britain; he has been a consistent fighter against Fascism, at home and abroad; and he is the last man of research who has resisted evacuation from University College, London...