Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong Man Juan Domingo Peron, the soldier-opportunist who yearned to be President-Dictator, had tried everything: the trappings and struttings of Fascism, anti-U.S. nationalism, an anti-Communist witch hunt. He had promised the moon to the Argentine working man, the same moon to Argentine industrialists. He had made gestures toward U.S. democracy, and had hinted at lining up (if worst came to worst) with the U.S.S.R. By last week's end, the returns were pouring in and they were not pleasant reading for Colonel Peron...
...fiance's home station, after urging them to drop in on her soon. David was not at the station to meet her. At the house, she first heard his voice querulously complaining about cold bath water. Soon he was enthusiastically outlining to her his plans for British Fascism - "a great company [of veterans] bound by common experience, [with a] soldiers' guild . . . soldiers' candidate . . . soldiers' party...
...Lord Rothermere to tilt his nose a little more toward the grindstone. After his father's death in 1940 he began showing up at Northcliffe House at 10 in the morning, stayed till after 6 at night. The policy of the Daily Mail, which had been friendly to fascism in his father's time, supported the anti-fascist war, at times seemed hostile to the U.S., wobbled along apparently undecided whether to go right or left...
Wrote Nicolaevsky: "Politically the manifesto was aimed not against militarism or 'military fascism' in Japan, but against capitalism and the 'gigantic trusts' which it declared responsible for the war. . . . It demanded the creation of a 'popular government,' a formula suitable to cover very diverse things. Still more significant is the fact that the manifesto does not even mention the Mikado.. . ." Explained Okano: Communists are opposed to monarchy, but the Alliance embraces people of various viewpoints; therefore the overthrow of the Emperor was not urged...
Cultural Correctives. For the reeducation of the Germans, two other organizations were also formed in Berlin: 1) the League of Culture for the Democratic Regeneration of Germany (whose executive committee consisted of Johannes R. Becher, Communist poet, and three non-Communists); 2) The Youth Council for the Eradication of Fascism (whose secretary is Heinz Kessler, member of the Free Germany Committee and one of its propagandists on the central Russian war front). The outstanding feature of these organizations was the collaboration of Communists and Social Democrats-traditional political enemies...