Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward its authors the old cries of "Yanqui interference" that have plagued our dealings with Latin America for a century. The failure of the Braden experiment seems to point to determined and long-term economic measures as the only means of exerting pressure upon the six-year hegemony of Fascism in the colossus of the South...
...earned the devotion of the doomed Republic by directing the attack on Madrid's Montana Barracks (which saved the city for a while). Between battles QuintanilLa the artist spread a hip-pocket sketchbook on his knee, crammed it with needle-sharp summations of democracy's clash with Fascism...
Ehrenburg was strong, too, on the subject of Fascism. "We don't want to impress our ideas on anyone," he said, "Those in the United States who attack the Soviet are really not anti-Russian; they are pro-Fascist and anti-American. We must agree on the answer to one question: 'do we want Fascism?' Fascism is a cuit of brute force which says one nation is better than another because of the color of its skin or the shape of its nose...
...body snatchers signed themselves "Democratic Fascist Party," a blackshirt lunatic fringe. But when rumor spread that the Democratic Fascists would ecstatically hoist Mussolini's remains on the Piazza Venezia's cenotaph, in view of Fascism's most glorious balcony, the police put on extra guards to repel a repulsive resurrection...
...about Prohibition (he likes liquor as much as he likes crap games) with an angry drawing of the Statue of Liberty taking a nosedive into the Atlantic. He illustrated the current housing shortage by drawing a dilapidated auto with a "No Vacancies" sign (see cut). Other pet Fitz targets: fascism, union haters, public utility holding companies, politicians (usually depicted as bigmouthed, potbellied, loafers...