Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd said the same with its placards, on which the paint was hardly dry. "Down with Truman," they said. "Break with Truman . . . United Labor must defeat Truman. . . . Labor must organize a third party now." And on a sign in the background that ugly word "Fascism" appeared. "The hell it can't happen here," trumpeted the sign. "Fascism is here today...
Dictator? Labor's topmost bosses cried the alarum. Placid Bill Green roused himself: "Fascism may grip America unawares." P.A.C. Boss Sidney Hillman stirred on his sickbed: "The most extreme and autocratic controls over the liberties and democratic rights of American workers ever seriously proposed in the history of our nation." Phil Murray could see "destruction of the labor movement" as Harry Truman's sole aim. John Lewis, fresh from his handshaking with the President, was discreetly silent...
Last week, above the clamor of hunger and the echoes of two wars, Europe's people still heard the voice of the spirit that for 2,000 years had made Christendom, for all its failures and struggles, the greatest of human communities. In numbers unprecedented before fascism and war closed over them, the people of Europe expressed a choice by ballot as to how they should order their lives: whether in concert with the principles on which Europe had been built, or the new principles stemming from man's relation with things rather than his relation with...
...strike by the Maritime Union give the nation little reason to hope that in the next few months it will be immune from strikes in essential industries. For the government to interfere in every strike which it considers inconvenient is for it to adopt the philosophy of Fascism...
...State Department, an old hand at economic warfare, chased the Nazi investments out of South America. The same methods can be used to spell doom to the next six years of Juan Peron's experiment in South American fascism...