Word: fascistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he: "I am going to set our house in order, restore domestic tranquillity. . . . Despite charges that I have fascist tendencies, I am going to be the greatest champion of democracy in politics as well as economics that this country...
There were few disorders. The most spectacular occurrence was in Rome, where masked Fascist gunmen seized the master radio transmitter and for a few minutes sang Fascist hymns and cheered Mussolini...
...difficult matter of defining fascism he settled this way: "One who hates the Soviet Union" is likely to be a fascist. Less simple but equally interesting was his approach to the question of Communist Party activities in other countries: "The Soviet is often reproached with mixing in other people's business. In Norway I saw roses and tomatoes growing together. I was told it was due to the Gulf Stream. Soviet Russia is like the Gulf Stream. It is here. And we do not intend to commit suicide to please other people...
...Welles was seconded by Brazil. Good Neighbor Brazil doubted that "Nazi-Fascist doctrines, beaten at the seat of their irradiation, can encounter in the Western Hemisphere a propitious climate for new and dangerous adventures. . . ." Brazil, leading a majority of Latin American nations, was ready to let Argentina's bygones be bygones...
Himself a little man, born at Scylla, not far from mythical Charybdis, in the Straits of Messina, he had long tossed between the rock of poverty and the whirlpool of Fascist repression. Until the blackshirts fell, he had eked out an existence as a statistician. Then, on Columbus Day, 1944, he had rediscovered America for his countrymen...