Word: fascistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Civil Rights Congress, American Youth for Democracy, and Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee all share the distinction of having been...
...Exposed at Nürnberg as Fascist organizations...
...Congress' opening session, Guest Speaker Palmiro Togliatti, dapper Communist boss, suavely declared: "Comrades, we feel profoundly united to you." Silver-haired Sicilian Giuseppe Casadei chimed in: "When peasants go to occupy feudal lands, should they go in separate groups, one Communist, one Socialist? When we face Fascist rifle fire, shall the Communists be in one square and the Socialists in another?" Sweepingly he pointed to a placard: "We want the powerful Socialist Party to be the vanguard of the united Popular Democratic Front." Cried he: "There, comrades, is the way to end proletarian enslavement...
...boots, cleaned their bicycles. . . ." And then there were the prisoners who obeyed Vichy orders to collaborate, and were given preferential treatment. For them Ambrière reserves his deepest scorn, remembering how, when they crossed the Rhine on the return trip to France, "with languid fingers they removed the Fascist symbol they had been wearing since 1941 and pinned the cross of Lorraine in its place...
Slight, soft-spoken Béla Bartók, who left fascist Hungary in 1940, had lived his last years in the U.S. and died broke and unrecognized (except by a few) in Manhattan. If his music was played at all in his lifetime, it was usually for one hearing only, or before tiny groups of enthusiasts. Few of his works had been recorded while he was alive, and they had not sold well. Rehearsal for Critics. On the same afternoon that San Franciscans were cheering the Bartók concerto, Yehudi Menuhin invited Manhattan critics to his Park Avenue...