Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...companion across the lunch table was Giuseppe Saragat, 57. Once Nenni's top lieutenant, Saragat had shared exile with Nenni from Mussolini's Fascism...
...torn up all his country's promises toward the Suez Canal Company . . . The pattern is familiar to many of us, my friends. We all know it is how fascist governments behave, and we all remember only too well what the cost can be in giving in to fascism. We do not seek a solution by force . . . But this I must make plain: we cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations shall be allowed to succeed...
...press conference his eloquence got the better of his sense: "If we have elections on my return, I and my party will boycott them-or we will put up 25 of the most advanced lepers in the island as our candidates. Singapore will have to wait until the fascism of the Colonial Office and the Communism of Peking have expended themselves fighting...
...East Germany after World War II, some 700,000 Social Democrats, influenced by feelings of comradeship for the Communists during the bitter struggle against Hitler, accepted the Communist slogan-"Democracy v. Fascism"-at its face value and joined a popular-front organization called the SED. Among them were hundreds of top Socialist leaders, including ex-Editor (of the anti-Nazi Brandenburger Zeitung) Friedrich Ebert, fat, pink-cheeked Max Feehner, onetime toolmaker, and gaunt, ambitious Otto Grotewohl. When skeptics called the SED a Communist maneuver, Grotewohl laughed and said that the Socialists, outnumbering the Communists three to one, would take over...
...political theorist or a thinker, trying to analyze and interpret a new movement, "ism" or secular trend like Communism, Fascism, Nazism, National Socialism or the New Deal, cannot do a satisfactory job if he has to denounce all the time what he is trying to explain, in order to protect himself against the charge of being a champion of all the evils of what he is writing or talking about. If, in the light of hindsight, I had to do it all over again, I probably would decide not to write and speak about Fascism as I did. I would...