Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen years later Blum stood at the apex of his career-the Socialist leader of the Popular Front. He had never liked the Communists but, uneasily, he allied himself with them against the rising menace of fascism. His long legs and long nose, stringy mustache and thick-lensed spectacles, wide-brimmed hat and spats were targets of caricaturists of Right and Left. Once Royalist hoodlums dragged him from his car and beat him up; he refused to prosecute them. In 1936 the Popular Front carried the elections. Leon Blum took the premiership...
...also we cannot cure and save this bourgeois society," he proclaimed. Before his government fell a year later, he had given France government-enforced collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, vacations with pay, regulated banks, a nationalized arms industry. Later, some men said that Blum's alliance against fascism had weakened and divided France, made it an easy prey to fascist aggression...
...Caribbean. The U.S., busy across the globe, was worried lest someone,' some day, might take advantage of a Caribbean quarrel, slip inside the hemisphere's back door, and use a l»cal spat in the American family to sow the seeds of Communism or fascism...
...these elements that political events have been developing. Hughes traces "The Transmutation of Marxism" as the theory came to grips with the tough realities of Russian culture and turned totalitarian. Fascism developed as it learned to manipulate the mob to its own uses. He is careful to point out that force put down the power of fascism, the people did not themselves turn against its spirit...
Since then his palazzo has been filled with students. They browse through his library at will, sometimes approach Il Maestro with a question. Such interruptions are welcome. "For so many years under Fascism," Croce says, "not a single student came to me with his problems...