Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult matter of defining fascism he settled this way: "One who hates the Soviet Union" is likely to be a fascist. Less simple but equally interesting was his approach to the question of Communist Party activities in other countries: "The Soviet is often reproached with mixing in other people's business. In Norway I saw roses and tomatoes growing together. I was told it was due to the Gulf Stream. Soviet Russia is like the Gulf Stream. It is here. And we do not intend to commit suicide to please other people...
...Spain is a menace we [will support] everything we can do under the Charter." Even sober-sided Andrei Gromyko grinned. By the time Hodgson was through, the Australian delegate had enough votes to back the principle of a Council subcommittee investigation to decide whether Spanish Fascism is a domes tic matter or a threat to world peace...
...Liberal leader, chunky, elderly Ichiro Hatoyama, had been grilled by U.S. newsmen over his book, Face of the Earth, written in 1938 and studded with praise of Naziism, Fascism and Japanese expansion in China. Asked if he now considered himself a suitable candidate for office, the flustered Liberal had stuttered: "My thoughts . . . were wrong ... I have no confidence...
...returned to Washington, subsequently sent to India and China. India, which he had never visited before, inspires some of the most nearly apoplectic, most polysyllabic (and shrewd) passages in the book. The "impermeable autochthonic self-responsive misery" of the Indians depressed him almost as much as "neo-Fascism" had in Italy, though for entirely different reasons. Sheean regards Britain's stay in India as a "silly impertinence," but says that India's major problem is the Indians themselves...
...Maybe it would help," said a front-page item, "to mentally face the current political scene in terms of the military clock face. . . . This places Communism at 3 o'clock, the extreme left. Fascism at 9 o'clock, the extreme right.* Democracy at 12 o'clock, the direct center...