Word: fascisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would melt into thick fat if she were squeezed." Another painter gave his girls eyes "like rotting goose-berries." French women were "very fidgety" but she took careful notes on what they could teach Japanese women about coquetry. From Italy she carried away an impression of Fascism "as disagreeable as bones that stick in the teeth." The first requisite for a pleasant tour, says Madame Ichikawa, is to know the words for "thank you" and "lavatory." Much interested in intimate conveniences, from what she could make out in going through historic castles over Europe she "often wondered if such noble...
...bombs. "We shall be inexorable toward [Leftist] cowards and defeatists," announced the Government. Britain and France the Government characterized as "cowardly democracies which watched unmoved the savage destruction of a sovereign country [the Basque region] and which tolerate that cynical neutrality patrol which only serves to insure for foreign Fascism immunity for transporting its armies of ruffians...
...Denouncing Fascism and encouraging the Spanish Loyalists...
...Fascism with ... its official press, its ventriloquist stage, is a matter of concern to men whose work demands, as the basic condition of its existence, freedom to publish. . . . The war is already made. Not a preliminary war. Not a local conflict. The actual war between the fascist powers and the things they would destroy, the war against which we must defend ourselves. . . . And in that war. that Spanish war on Spanish earth, we, writers who contend for freedom, are ourselves, and whether we so wish or not, engaged...
Between Italian Fascism and its German imitation, one of the marked differences has been the Italians' unconcern about Jews. A small but ominous clap of anti-Semitic thunder rang out in Italy last week. Writing in II Duce's Milan newspaper Popolo d'ltalia Editorial Writer Oreste Gregorio declared: ''[Jews in Italy] must either publicly declare themselves enemies-we mean enemies-of all anti-Fascist Hebrewism ... or renounce their Italian citizenship and residence. . . . They' must abandon any participation in the Zionist movement for a national Jewish home in Palestine ... which would tend to create...