Word: fascistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little about Mr. Steele's own background. I find half a dozen references to Steele in the index of John Roy Carlson's "Under Cover." Tracking them down, one finds the patriotic Mr. Steele being buddy-buddy with such fine un-Americans as Joseph S. Kamp, editor of a fascist sheet hailed by the Nazis, the seditionists James True and Liz Dilling, and John B. Snow, the "gentleman fascist...
...this group, Carlson wrote: "Personally I regard Snow as one of the most calculating fascist minds in America serving the interests of old guard, reactionary business men. His closest collaborators were Joseph P. Kamp, Merwin K. Hart, Cathrine Curtis, WALTER S. STEELE (editor of National Republic) and John B. Trevor of the super-patriotic American Coalition. All served the same masters and all shared in Snow's views...
...this: permitted to express themselves, "extremists" "blow off steam," and are consequently less dangerous; the "extremes" neutralize each other in some way and serve as a means of locating the current Middle Ground, where the commonsensical common man will always ultimately take his stand. The trouble is that certain fascist "extremes" have lately had a curious way of coming to power and hence locally ceasing to be extremes. Liberal Germans have testified that they found the early Hitler quite the same sort of unpromising lowbrow crank as the Crimson evidently imagines Gerald Smith to be. Well, the Reverend Smith...
Gerald L. K. Smith, who has been labelled America's Number One Fascist, made a very successful appearance in Boston's Old South Meeting House Sunday afternoon. The one-time head of the America First party, currently promoting his Christian Nationalist Crusade, could scarcely have asked for a reception better suited to his purposes. He got front page publicity complete with banner headlines and pictures in Boston newspapers. He was able to place himself on the side of law, order, "Americanism," and free speech--all without uttering a single audible word...
Scheduled to speak in behalf of his Christian Nationalist crusade, Smith was booed out of the ball--after an hour of trying to start his address--by the Youth Council supporters, who called Smith a Fascist and later approved a resolution condemming him for "stirring up racial and religious hatreds...