Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even today, in the seventeenth month of our struggle against the international disease of fascism, a goodly proportion of our national Congress as well as of the American people seem to have forgotten the fact which Pearl Harbor should have made inescapable and unforgettable--no point on the globe is more than sixty hours distant by bomber; no nation is safe amidst international anarchy. But the isolationists do not, or choose not to, agree...
...post-war international policy our nation adopts, rather inclining towards a sort of 1938 isolationists normalcy. But such a course would be the shortest road to national suicide. Isolationism was a practicability, however immoral, before the airplane came, before international trade became so critically important, before the disease of fascism. Today isolationism is no longer even a practicable possibility. The issue is very simple, that of World War III. Ages ago, Cain asked, "Am, I my brother's keeper?"; the future of our world depends upon our answer...
...Fascism's Labor Day came & went in Italy last week with scarcely a ripple of celebration. Duce Mussolini, who in bet ter days was wont to show himself barechested, building walls in the former Pontine Marshes, was chest-deep in other, less healthy labor. For the second time in a fortnight he shook up his Party leader ship. Tunisia was on his mind. So was his slowly crumbling Blackshirt State. A new generation of resistance was gathering its strength in Italy...
...Frank Dobie, professor of literature, rancher, glorifier of the open range, accepted an invitation to Cambridge University, announced he would "explain homemade Fascism" to the English, gave as an example "John Lee Smith, Lieutenant-Governor of Texas [and] Laborbaiter." Replied Smith: "The shipping space . . . could be better used by shipping some good Texas beefsteak which English stomachs would relish better than English brains will digest the mental slumgullion which Dobie has for them...
Although we are fighting an "ideological war" to wipe out fascism Mowrer cited examples of our losing that battle by our openly admitting that Spain was getting more gas than the East Coast and promising Franco that he would remain unmolested at the peace settlements...