Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those made by members of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Said the bishops, quoting a speech by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill: "We are against trial by uninformed public opinion, against accusations by hearsay . . . The church is equally opposed to what may be described as 'creeping fascism...
Without Eagles. Just why Premier Salazar had decided to dabble in democracy after 25 years' devotion to a corporative state modeled on Italian Fascism, he did not say. In fact, the Premier rarely says anything. Disdaining the dazzle and bombast the eagles and trumpets of the dictating profession. Portugal's Premier, at 64, has outlasted them all. Today he is the dean of totalitarian rulers...
...Driberg ask himself why so many Fascist leaders could, without changing their essential moral philosophy, move straight from Marxism to Fascism. Mussolini? Doriot? Or make the easy return trip, as so many an ex-Gauleiter-now a people's commissar of East Germany-has done . . . Also, let Mr. Driberg point out just one difference between the program of his party and that outlined 105 years ago by Marx in the Communist Manifesto . . . We are assured British Socialism, when it gets really in the saddle, will be Christian and very, very British-the collective state without the Lubianka. Really...
...national necessity for the U.S. to enter the war. He opposed aid to Russia after the breaking of the Soviet-Nazi pact when Russia was being invaded. "The victory of Communism in the world would be far more dangerous to the U.S. than the victory of fascism," he said then. "It is a greater danger to the U.S. because it is a false philosophy which appeals to many. Fascism is a false philosophy which appeals to a few." This was a weighing of hazards which was not well received in Washington...
Matthews next turned up in New York City "an avowed Socialist" and executive secretary of the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation. He believed in "the policy of a united front with Communism as the way to end war, [and] became the first head of the American League Against War and Fascism, probably the most successful 'front' ever organized by the American Communists." He wrote a book, Partners in Plunder, in which he "proved," Hutchinson recalls, that "J. Pierpont Morgan owned the Episcopal Church, Andrew Mellon had the Presbyterians in his vest pocket, and as for the Baptists-well, hadn...