Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazilian editors were slap-happy with newfound freedom. Newspapers, with the exception of Brazil-Portugal*, sharply rapped the dictatorial Vargas regime for its truck with fascism, its curtailment of the vote and free speech. They speculated wildly about the still unscheduled elections. Names of hitherto unmentionable oppositionists, like ex-Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and deposed Air Chief Eduardo Gomes, were headlined. Brazilians bought early editions by the handful, read them goggle-eyed. Gasped one: "I can't stand it! There's too much oxygen!" Said Diario Carioca: "The youngest of us never even knew of such freedom except...
...other target was hit even harder. Columnist Mowrer had accused the Vatican of "supporting fascism against democracy" before the war, and wanted to know the future political designs of U.S. Roman Catholics. Such language, said Thackrey, who had printed it, was "intolerant . . . designed to insult his fellow Americans of the Roman Catholic faith." It was "stupid . . . Ku Klux Klanism, and worse. . . . No conscious fascist could have phrased it better." At week's end Mowrer had not chosen to reply in print. Said he: "Of course I could go down and talk it out with Thackrey, but my tailor hasn...
...books, all such political mind-molders have been replaced with references to soil, crops, etc. But the Subcommission left the really tough job of Axis textbook revision still to be done. Lacking time to provide new chapters explaining why Fascism is bad and democracy good, it simply deleted all references to political and social events after World...
...well-known characters in international politics showed himself in a new and more popular light last week. The new Lord Templewood (the old Sir Samuel Hoare), long considered an appeaser and compromiser with Fascism, came back from almost five years as British Ambassador to Franco to speak his mind about totalitarianism. Either he had changed or he had been much misunderstood...
Always regarded as a conscientious man with a decisive mind and considerable initiative, Sir Samuel had once thoroughly misjudged democratic feeling in Britain and the dangers of Fascism in Europe...