Word: fascistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fascism. . . . Franco is a Vatican pet and Franco's Spain is the image of the clerical states of postwar Europe which the Vatican would like to see emerge. . . . Like the Italians, the Catholics of England, America, Spain, Poland and other countries are becoming convinced of the pro-Fascist character of the Vatican's policy. The Foreign Policy Association is right when it states that it foresees 'an approaching period of unprecedented anticlericalism...
Actually, the core of the Foreign Policy Association report was this definition of the Pope's role in modern world affairs: "The view that the Pope is at heart a fascist and wishes to see the triumph of modern dictatorships . . . proves to be without foundation in fact. At the same time, he is not a supporter of democracy but is just what he claims to be-indifferent to political forms, accepting any Government which will meet the minimum demands of the Church...
Decision (by Edward Chodorov, produced by Edward Choate), if no great shakes as a play, is vigorous pamphleteering on a vital subject. Playwright Chodorov has highlighted the home-front struggle between the free-and the fascist-minded, pitting a fearless high-school principal against a viciously reactionary senator who has engineered a race riot in a war plant. Assailed, the senator strikes back, has the principal framed on a rape charge and then cleverly murdered-to give the impression that he hanged himself out of guilt. Thereafter Decision focuses on the principal's wounded-soldier son who had returned...
While fascism's beatings, blood lust and bombings have been getting the headlines, Economist John T. Flynn has been burrowing deep into pre-fascist history for the story behind the headlines. His findings, as set forth in As We Go Marching, are a model of pamphleteering clarity. For onetime America-Firster Flynn strikes a deadly parallel between what happened in Italy and Germany and what is now happening in the U.S., proving-to his own satisfaction, at least-that it can happen here...
...hand, Arturo Rawson, pro-Ally Ambassador to Brazil, who sent a congratulatory message to President Ramirez, was answered with a stinging rebuke and quit his job. Unless there is a radical change in Buenos Aires, the U.S. and Britain will find themselves in bed with still another technically friendly, fascist-type regime...