Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...based on two great calls for social reform-the Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII and the Quadragesima Anno of Pius XI (see RELIGION). But however lofty may have been his inspiration, Salazar's execution was on a quite different pattern, one already known and hated as Fascism: free thought was abolished, the individual became subordinated to the state, the human bill of rights was suppressed and the secret police became the main arm of government. Soon little boys, well-shod and sporting Balilla-like uniforms, were marching in the wake of Salazar's blackshirt-type Legido (Legion...
...informed as William Green must know that Fascism won't "grip America unawares" [TIME, June...
...shoulder with, such "verbal false limbs" as make contact with, play a leading role in, serve the purpose of, and such "pretentious diction" as phenomenon, constitute, epochmaking, unforgettable, ancien régime, status quo. And he would clearly define or do without such "meaningless words" as realistic, sentimental, fascism, democracy, progressive, reactionary...
Between wars, he has turned out workmanlike books (Eyewitness in Abyssinia, Two Wars and More to Come, The Fruits of Fascism) on the trouble he has seen. This week, in a new book (The Education of a Correspondent; Harcourt, Brace; $4) that is part travelogue, part personal history, Reporter Matthews gives a long-winded (550 pages) recital of all the hard lessons he has learned...
...when he got to Spain, his first lesson began to sink in: Fascism was designed for export, and anybody who did not want to import it must fight it. Somewhere between Valencia, blitzed Barcelona and Madrid, his ivory tower crumbled, and Matthews stepped from its rubble to do the best reporting of his career. Because it was also optimistic reporting, he wound up feeling as sick at heart as the Spanish Republicans...