Word: fascistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult indeed to know what the liberals are striving for. Our very enemies, Germany and Italy, have that economic equality the liberals relish, while Russia, a joy to radical economists, is a tyranny. Why cannot the radicals demand abolition of all dictatorships, fascist and communistic? Leftists now want to leave the Russian system alone after the war. This is a compromise with idealism and shows a weak inconsistency in the radical camp. Can they expect a lasting peace with any dictatorship still rampant...
...Fascist Spain the New York Times sent able, experienced Correspondent Thomas J. Hamilton. For two years Hamilton watched and noted well. Last week his book on Franco's Spain, Appeasement's Child (Knopf; $3), was published...
Caudillo Franco, warns Hamilton, is by no means just another Spanish dictator. "He is a ... Fascist, with unshakable imperialist aims and an intransigence toward the democracies which, unlike Hitler, he has never attempted to disguise. . . . His community of purpose with Hitler and Mussolini has been strengthened by the fact that only the overthrow of France, England and the United States will permit Franco's regime to attain its ambitions in Africa and Latin America. These ambitions are a part of Franco himself and were not wished upon him by Serrano Suñer or anybody else...
...home, the German Ambassador was given the place of honor at all ceremonies. Such dignitaries as Heinrich Himmler were given state receptions. Abroad, "the Nazi and Falangista propagandists are working together." In South America (where Hamilton spent three months last year) the influence of Fascist Spain "is being thrown solidly against...
Allied policy toward this Spain in which the Nazis call the tune and Franco happily plays the Fascist fiddle has been one of cautious appeasement. In July 1939 the U.S. gave Franco a $13,350,000 loan to buy cotton, his most urgent need. When the cotton arrived, the Franco press gave it a couple of lines, praised it as a "work of the Caudillo...