Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engage in more exciting business. As the trial dragged on, Mrs. Lois de Lafayette Washburn-who opened the proceedings with a Nazi salute and once appeared in court in a pale blue satin nightdress-was teaching a night class in stenography. Lawrence ("The Brain") Dennis, top intellectual of U.S. fascism, spent his mornings browsing sedately in the Library of Congress. Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling was touring the Midwest, singing anti-Semitic and anti-rationing songs to America-First rallies...
...Adolf Hitler, drape the coffin of a departed comrade with the swastika banner. This situation understandably exasperates many U.S. citizens. Last week a letter from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson suggested that the U.S. Army is well aware that it has the potential core of a future fascism on its hands, that it has already taken many preventive steps lately requested by outraged civilians...
Norman Thomas, 60, good, greying, five-time Socialist Party candidate for President, pondering the meaning of his fifth defeat, saw no future for the Socialist Party, as a political force, predicted that "America is on the road to fascism, or a variant of fascism," prophesied that a coalition of progressive labor, farm, and regional groups (e.g., the New York Liberals and Wisconsin Progressives) was the U.S.'s only hope. Said Thomas: "That rules out, to take an extreme case, Sidney Hillman, or any such labor leader...
Socialist Boss Pietro Nenni and Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti spoke. Nenni lashed out against the monarchy as the greatest supporter of Fascism, called on the Italian people to take up arms against the dangerous spirit of reaction it represented. There was a blizzard of paper scraps on each of which was written "Abasso la borghesia!" (Down with the bourgeoisie...
...defense could argue that these were the unfortunate commonplaces of old-fashioned Latin American dictatorships. Most of the characteristic stigmata of Fascism were missing. There was no official party. Anti-Semitism was less intensive than might be expected in a nation whose middle class had felt the competition of many refugee Jews...