Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While thousands of internationally-minded American citizens back in 1925 were voicing their admiration of "what that fellow Mussolini has done for Italy," a little grey-bearded professor named Gaetano Salvemini was fighting a personal duel with II Duce and warning the world of Fascism...
...Lend-Lease] Bill is a charter of dictatorship and an assurance of war, and you shortly will have your wish. May you relish it in hindsight as much as you do in prospect. Hating fascism, you are embracing it by the back door. You are destroying the United States in the vain hope of mending a Europe about which you are as romantically deluded as were most of us in 1914-17." So said the Saturday Evening Post in one of the extraordinarily bitter letters with which it answered some readers who protested the magazine's stand against...
...citizenry standing behind him approving any shift he might make. This time he obviously does not, and it appears that all the powers of press and publicity will not sway that vital two-thirds. We have seen government by militant authority before and we have labelled it fascism...
...United States of America"). Sometimes he has combined the two. In 1938, when the British bought 400 U.S. planes, Editor Grey called it "a disgraceful deal," yammered that "to order American aeroplanes of any sort is an imbecility." In between, he whooped his praises for German and Italian Fascism. Declaring that "we were on the wrong side" in World War I, he swore that the "invincible" Luftwaffe was meant to fight Russia and not Britain. One of his rare plane trips was a flight over Rome with Benito Mussolini at the controls of a bomber...
...elimination of interstate trade barriers; 2) repeal of the Miller-Tydings Act (which gives Federal blessing to State minimum-price laws); 3) elimination of basing-point price systems. The price system for soft coal set up by the Guffey Act was found to contain the "germs" of Fascism. (Congress renewed it for two years last week...