Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from paying transportation costs of emigres, should be changed. The old quotas must be revised or abandoned. Uncle Sam's refusal to classify the Spanish Loyalists as refugees so that they are ineligible for even temporary haven is a heartless response to the appeal of those first fighters against fascism who now are ringed by Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini. No All American team sparked by Senator Reynolds should be permitted to pull in the welcome must of Ellis Island. Not even the selfish arguments for walking out Europe's outcasts bold good. In a world of destruction and despair...
...dance danced this generation had lived through: 1) World War I, which for the first time brought out into the open the crisis in western civilization of which the lost generation was also a symptom ; 2) the beginnings of a social revolution which came to be called Communism and Fascism; 3) the abdication of an older generation almost as lost as the younger...
...lately become the constant refrain of many another of this country's progressives. From Herbert Agar on alphabetically down the list, they have proclaimed-with Harvard's most distinguished son-that the Fight for Freedom "must and will" be fought simultaneously on two fronts: abroad against soul-cramping fascism, at home against poverty and reaction. This war, they urge, is not a barrier against social progress, but a path to it. Paraphrasing Herbert Croly, they hail the Promise of American Strife...
...French F and German F, which used to offer cultural appreciation in the form of descriptions of a Cook's Tour from Paris to Versailles, or the geography of the Austrian Alps, have turned to questioning the more pertinent particulars of the fall of France and the rise of fascism. Now Princeton's Department of Politics has announced that it will give courses analyzing the factors that lead to war, and "educating young men for participation in the ceaseless effort to make democracy work...
...democracy work at home with this group running the government? What chance, when the annual expenditures for defense will make social legislation impossible? When every frustrated, unsatisfied hoodlum in America will start buying colored shirts and parading with his local fascist party? When it will be impossible to critize fascism, lest it disturb relations with our good friends and customers beyond the seas. Hitler won't have to invade America until it is so torn be inner conflict that the German army could cross the ocean in canoes. It is time to end these theories of invasion, so easily refuted...