Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Interior Ministry announced that Rajk and 19 accomplices had been arrested on charges of "spying for a foreign power." "It was the vigilance of Comrade Rakosi," the Budapest daily Szabad Nep confided, that uncovered "the background of the Rajk legend . . . Trotskyism, Fascism, Zionism and anti-Sovietism, that was the ideological sink" which had spawned the treachery. For Communists who were still safe at home, Nep offered a little fatherly advice: "The important thing (to remember) is that treason against the party, deviation from the Marxist-Leninist line, is a steep slope from which plunging into the imperialist...
...Blanshard's own sources, agree neither with the temper of the thought, or the dogmatic authentication of the sources from which it is derived. Some clerics do agree, and the cases of Quebee and Spain certainly provide strong arguments for the possibility of compromise between Catholicism and fascism. But the blanket implications which Mr. Blanshard draws are politically naive. The social facts in Spain and the United States are only slightly comparable. His simple use of the Papist bug-a-boo as the enduring prime mover of unsavory isms is just too easy...
Instead the House initiated a bill, at last report awaiting Senate action, which would require students to sign a pledge that they do not believe in Communism or Fascism...
...more or less strict than it was ten years ago is not the issue. Franco's army of 400,000 men keeps "order," and the General is supported by a single recognized political party. Serious opposition is promptly and inevitably imprisoned or liquidated. All of which adds up to Fascism...
...same bitter circumstances that threaten to transform decent patriotism into indecent nationalism are conspiring also to choke democracy's growth. The saddest and plainest diagnosis I have heard came from a brainy, sober man of 42 who has fought Fascism all his life-Waldemar von Knoeringen, head of Bavaria's Socialist Party...