Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends are heart-broken. They remember how Shirley gave new life and artistry to such old and unimaginative stories as "Heidi" and "Blue Bird." We're pretty well down in the dumps ourselves--for even more profound reasons. In an American youth polluted with the destructive forces of Communism, Fascism, Atheism, Cynicism, and Bertrand Russell, little Shirley has been the only ray of pure and unadulterated sunshine. For half a dozen years now, she has stood for all that is fine in America's young people. And so we say with Bill Robinson: "Virtue is never its own reward--except...
...Deal, Italian Fascism, and German National Socialism are all similar examples of "national capitalism," according to an article published in the Harvard Business Review by Norman B. Gras, Isidor Straus Professor of Business...
...Fascism was born in Italy and in 1933 Nazism in Germany and the New Deal in the United States," Professor Gras said. "All arose out of distress caused by postwar reactions of business. All were based on private business and all provided work for the working class...
...That President Roosevelt "was the first who gave expression to this hatred of Fascism," with a twofold object: "First, he wanted to divert the attention of the American people from difficult and involved inner political problems. . . . Second, by the creation of war opinion and through rumors about the danger threatening Europe, he wanted to get the Amer ican people to accept an enormous arma ment program...
Since the Year One (of Fascism-1922) Benito Mussolini had given his people a martial slogan: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" He hurried from naval reviews to maneuvers at sea, from military exercises to parades to grandiose mock campaigns on land. He learned to salute like Caesar, scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs...