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...thank the CRIMSON for its coverage of my talk to the Conservative Club on "A Foreign Policy for America." But, may I also state that before, during and after the late world war, I was never a fascist; that I never said I was a fascist; that I never was a member or even a fellow traveler of any party, movement or group calling itself fascist; and that I never "supported the Fascist cause," whatever that phrase may mean...
What I did and what, no doubt, got me branded or smeared as a "fascist" was (1) I tried to explain and rationalize fascism, which one could not do satisfactorily while denouncing it; (2) I said that fascism, Nazism, Communism and the Roosevelt New Deal in America were all different--in some respects and similar in many others--sectors of a world wide movement or secular trend towards collectivism, a planned economy and some sort of national socialism; (3) I opposed the drive to get America into a war, allegedly against Fascism and Nazism, and on the side of Communism...
...brief and easy confirmation of my present statement that I was never a Fascist, you may refer to the New York Times of February 26, 1941, page 13, Column 1. Therein was reported a speech by then Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, calling me a fascist. The Times asked me for a reply, which I gave and which they published. In it, I said that President Roosevelt, and not I, was then America's Number 1 fascist...
...have in my files numerous newspaper clippings reporting that in public addresses I made over the period 1935-1941, I repeatedly said that I was not a fascist or, even, a defender of fascism. A lawyer defending a person on trial under a criminal indictment can defend his client without being smeared as a defender or an advocate of crime--even after the client has been found guilty. There could be no due process of law in criminal trials if it were otherwise...
...western world and the American people, however, have paid a far higher price than I have paid. I have been smeared as a fascist. The American people have fought and won a world war to make Communism the chief, if not the only, winner. I foresaw and predicted this in my book, The Dynamics of War and Revolution, written just after the beginning of World War II and published privately by me in early 1940 after Harpers had printed the book and then decided it was too hot for them to publish under their name...