Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local, regional and national councils. It occupies itself with the problem of bettering the Jewish position all over the world and especially in America. Cooperating with all sorts of committees for the preservation of civil liberties, it works, first of all, to protect the Jew from the dangers of fascism and reaction. It is, of course, a Zionist organization. But this problem, too, it treats on a practical basis. It does not advocate transporting every Jew to Palestine. Rather, it confines itself to raising money to buy land in Palestine and to sending there many of its ablest members...
...Morrison a Catholic priest spoke in a national broadcast at week's end. Rev. Maurice S. Sheehy, head of The Catholic University of America's Religious Education Department, in heartfelt tones condemned isolationist "fence-sitters" who refuse to face the destructive threat of Naziism and Fascism to Christian civilization...
...German victory in Europe would immensely strengthen the forces of reaction in America and would necessarily result in the abridgement of those rights and liberties for which the Youth Congress is fighting.... We urge full American aid to all nations determined to check the menace of a fascism seeking world conquest...
...intellectuals who inhabit the hinterland west of New York City-and whom our "intellectuals" despised for their Rotarianism, their devotion to business, their taste in art and entertainment, their patriotism, their family life, et al.-these same provincials saw clearly ten to 15 years ago that Communism and Fascism were cut from the same pattern and that as governments both resembled Capone's rule of gangsterdom. Such ignorance and lack of discrimination pained our urban "intellectuals," but it was the latter, not the former, who were confounded when Stalin joined hands with . . . Hitler and invaded the Baltic States. Moreover...
...What We Are up Against" is the subject of the lecture, for which Mowrer has been qualified by twenty-seven years work as the European correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. He was working in Paris during the first World War, witnessed the rise of Fascism and Naziism, and covered the Fall of France before he was finally chased from Europe by the German armies...