Word: fascistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the State Department, to block his appearance at Red "peace" riots abroad, voided his passport. Robeson would have to stay put a while in the land that has seemed to him, at various times, fascist, imperialistic, bourgeois and warmongering. To the State Department, Robeson's statements did not seem in the best interests of the U.S., or representative of the U.S. people. A sample: "It is unthinkable that [American Negroes] would go to war on behalf of those who have oppressed us for generations," against a country (U.S.S.R.) "which in one generation has raised our people...
...reaction of the guileless, the dupes, the muddled. Day after day, the Worker whooped it up, ran advertisements ("The Celebrated Soviet Novelist Alexander Fadeyev Has Signed the Stockholm Peace Appeal"). Those who refused to sign were pictured snarling: "No, I don't want peace; I'm a fascist beast...
...this controversial issue doesn't prove that TIME is right, either. But it indicates that TIME has maintained a consistent point of view while the scenery changed. From its beginning in 1923, TIME has been consistently critical of any totalitarian form of government, whether it was Nazi, Fascist or Communist. In particular, TIME has long been an outspoken foe of Communism. Even during the early postwar period, when pro-Russian feeling ran high, TIME'S editors were warning of the dangers of Communist expansion abroad and infiltration at home...
...attorneys brought in witnesses to try to prove that Adler and Draper had supported a number of Communist fronts. They had performed for some, including the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, which had nourished Gerhart Eisler while he was in the U.S. and helped him in his escape to Russia. Ex-Communist Louis Budenz and two former undercover FBI agents testified flatly that they had known of Adler and Draper in the party as Communist entertainers...
...dissident elements in Bolivia-Socialists, Communists, Trotskyites, members of the pro-fascist Movement of National Revolution-dropped mutual hates to back the teachers. Rail, bank, factory and transport unions joined in to make it a general strike...