Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first International Brigades marched into the Spanish Civil War, shouting: Spain is the grave of fascism. It turned out to be the grave of most of the Internationals. They had almost no arms, often no rations. They were refugees from Germany and Italy, workingmen and intellectuals from France and Belgium, men without identification papers, passports, even names. Most of them were Communists, but there were few Russians among them. They believed they were fighting to save democracy from fascism. In their political innocence and lack of military equipment, they were determined, if necessary, to make a living barrier of their...
...double-edged sword of economic pressure and propaganda, may slowly close in on the Panama Canal, undermining our military security. We may be required for a decade, for a generation, to maintain a gigantic defense establishment. And a nation heavily armed and primed for total war is ripe for fascism, not necessarily an imported German brand, but a home-grown product sold us under the label of "national defense...
...main defense problems are to prevent German penetration of South America--and this is primarily all economic, not a military, task; and to guard against fascism from within. There can be good and bad national defense. There are many sincere persons who in the name of national defense are seeking to prepare us emotionally and psychologically for military intervention. In resisting with all our might blind emotionalism and unthinking adherence to empty slogans and symbols lies the only hope that we may remain the masters of our destiny...
...political truce when World War II began, by coming out for the Third Term ("the President's talents and training are necessary to steer this country, domestically and in its foreign relationships, to safe harbors"). At that time, despite his long belief in internationalism, his hatred of fascism, he believed the U. S. should give up thought of open aid to Britain and France. Later he read Thorstein Veblen's The Nature of Peace and Imperial Germany, and changed to a policy of all aid short of war. Stubborn, slow to make up his mind, he drives hard...
...After the Nazi-Soviet pact orders from the Moscow Comintern made it the duty of Communists in every nation "to work for the collapse of resistance to Fascism in the interest of the Russian State, at whatever cost ... to themselves...